bumpkin
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of bumpkin
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
“Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.”
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noun
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A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
“Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.”
- A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
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Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
“They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.”
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Etymology
From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
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