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

Example sentences :

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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