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

"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

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

He’s a cautionary tale of what happens to average yokels who fool themselves into thinking they’re ready to take up residence among the sharks.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2019

Unlike earlier Liverpool entertainers, who seemed to either Londonise themselves or specialise in being Scouser yokels, the Beatles have come up with a different and heavily northern flavoured sound of their own.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2012

After all, thought Parliament, the Americans were yokels and farmers—not political thinkers.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes