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Synonyms for yokel
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yoh-kuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyoʊ kəl |
Définition of yokel
Origin :- 1812, perhaps from dialectal German Jokel, disparaging name for a farmer, originally diminutive of Jakob. Or perhaps from English yokel, dialectal name for "woodpecker."
- noun person who is mired in local custom
- I have a notion that I sat there staring and listening like a yokel at a play.
- Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
- This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.
- Extract from : « An Old Meerschaum » by David Christie Murray
- Thebold had been chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.
- Extract from : « And Then the Town Took Off » by Richard Wilson
- This yokel from the woods and mountains needed a little coaxing.
- Extract from : « The Bright Messenger » by Algernon Blackwood
- It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him.
- Extract from : « The Human Slaughter-House » by Wilhelm Lamszus
- McAllister hastily tried to assume the expression and manner of a yokel.
- Extract from : « McAllister and His Double » by Arthur Train
- Tristrem looked at him much as a yokel at a fair might look at a wizard.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Tristrem Varick » by Edgar Saltus
- If that isn't a Zummerset or Devon yokel, sink me for a landlubber!
- Extract from : « The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' » by Percy F. Westerman
- They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends.
- Extract from : « Germany and the Germans » by Price Collier
- The yokel was a year or two older, was taller, and stones heavier.
- Extract from : « Acton's Feud » by Frederick Swainson
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