yokel

In a hilarious illustration of this disconnect, Ms. Hansen writes of a yokel who poured “twenty bags of soil” on the balcony of his Karagümrük apartment to plant beans, tomatoes and peppers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

John Noakes called her awful: "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

"Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021

The film, a direct ancestor of The Hudsucker Proxy, follows a dumb but sweet yokel played by Dick Powell as he convinces the executives at several companies that he’s some kind of a marketing genius.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021

When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But why don’t the rest of us yokels get schlepped around by private jets when we’re in grave danger?

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2023

Baltz, 42, plays a variety of Midwestern yokels on the improv comedy podcast “Comedy Bang! Bang!” — like Randy Snutz, an amalgamation of dudes he grew up around in the far-flung suburbs of Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

They came up in a conversation of bands we were considering and we’re always gonna vote for the local yokels.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

And the yokels behind him are no help, either: one of them has a grain of sand stuck in his eye.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2019

The British soldier was grinning, and Johnny guessed that he had been put up to this game merely to snare ‘the yokels.’

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes