yokel
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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
"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
"She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her then, so I won't pretend I am looking forward to rubbing shoulders with her now."
From BBC • May 29, 2017
Dawn Madden did a spazzo yokel voice at the tractor.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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