But the young gallant introduced to-night into the world she lived in was no bumpkin, and was a dandy of the town.
Curiosity as to the place was at its utmost stretch, but our ignorant bumpkin could tell nothing about it.
His manner towards me was that of a man of the world who is kindly disposed towards a country bumpkin.
It's the kind of house that is becoming rare, and the bumpkin farmer and his family don't value antiquities.
Then turning impatiently to the persons gathered around: "Does it require all of you, standing there like gaping bumpkins, to tighten my girth?
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Instead, once in the city they experience - and resent - downward mobility, often because of a stigmatization (as country bumpkins) over which they have no control.
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Boys, but not girls, can use hi with impunity, even when doing so can invoke a negative stereotype, the countrybumpkin.
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On the other hand, those who cheat country bumpkins and scare good people, in order to swindle money out of them, are nothing more than litigation hooligans.
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The basis of his argument is that we in the county are simple country bumpkins who do not understand these problems.
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These land workers are not the country bumpkins imagined by town dwellers.
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We are not just a lot of bumpkins.
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The people involved are not bumpkins who do not know what is going on.
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In exasperation, the sergeant places the countrybumpkinon full-time latrine duty.
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She is cheerful and optimistic, but lacks the sophistication and common sense to deal with the royalty (due to her being a countrybumpkin).
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Depicted as a countrybumpkinthat loves to eat, he is kind and gentle and has no alternate sinister (petwo) form.
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Being orphans and uneducated, all seven brothers are unsophisticated bumpkins and lack social etiquette and hygiene.
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Realizing that the trove would somehow liberate him from hisbumpkinexistence, he brings pieces of it to a jeweler in the city.
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Distinction was made between fools and clowns, or country bumpkins.
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Chappani, a villagebumpkin, is taken advantage of and isolated by the society.
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He became active in calypso in the mid-1930s, and was considered a countrybumpkinby his contemporaries, because of his humble beginning.
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