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All country cousin synonyms

coun·try cous·in
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noun country cousin

  • bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
  • rustic — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
  • boor — If you refer to someone as a boor, you think their behaviour and attitudes are rough, uneducated, and rude.
  • clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
  • hillbilly — a term used to refer to a person from a backwoods or other remote area, especially from the mountains of the southern U.S. (sometimes used facetiously).
  • hick — an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
  • rubeArthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
  • bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
  • farmer — Fannie (Merritt) [mer-it] /ˈmɛr ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1857–1915, U.S. authority on cooking.
  • hayseed — grass seed, especially that shaken out of hay.
  • redneck — an uneducated white farm laborer, especially from the South.
  • yokel — an unsophisticated person from a rural area; a country bumpkin.
  • provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • peasant — a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
  • rural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
  • cornfed — fed on corn
  • good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
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