YOKEL


Meaning of YOKEL in English

/ ˈjəʊkl; NAmE ˈjoʊkl/ noun

(often humorous ) if you call a person a yokel , you are saying that they do not have much education or understanding of modern life, because they come from the countryside

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WORD ORIGIN

early 19th cent.: perhaps figuratively from dialect yokel green woodpecker .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.