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yokel

noun as in country bumpkin

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

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Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including “slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.”

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And yet, this media myth persists that it's all just an act to win over the "base" of uneducated yokels.

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They find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to live in a place that films, TV shows and other media have taught them is a cesspool populated only by slack-jawed yokels.

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I wasn’t even sure what a yokel was, but I tried blending in anyway.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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