bumpkin
/ˈbʌmpkɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
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.