country bumpkin

collocation in English

meaningsofcountryandbumpkin

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country
noun
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri/us
/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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bumpkin
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʌmp.kɪn/us
/ˈbʌmp.kɪn/
a person from the countryside who is considered to be awkward ...
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(Definition ofcountryandbumpkinfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcountry bumpkin

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Boys, but not girls, can use hi with impunity, even when doing so can invoke a negative stereotype, thecountrybumpkin.
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In exasperation, the sergeant places thecountrybumpkinon 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 acountrybumpkin).
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Depicted as acountrybumpkinthat loves to eat, he is kind and gentle and has no alternate sinister (petwo) form.
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He became active in calypso in the mid-1930s, and was considered acountrybumpkinby his contemporaries, because of his humble beginning.
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He was a somewhat stereotypical depiction of an ignorantcountrybumpkin, but often his ignorance was more navet than stupidity.
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The characterizations given to most of her family members poke fun atcountrybumpkinstereotypes.
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Goldsmith's play reintroduces thecountrybumpkincharacter who outwits the sophisticated would-be rakes who are engaged in a plot to marry well.
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Acountrybumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for three years.
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He put on an outrageouscountrybumpkinoutfit, wore a wig, painted freckles on his face and used every joke he could beg borrow or steal.
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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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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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Distinction was made between fools and clowns, or country bumpkins.
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Recruits to the unit tended to be of a higher age than normal, and were nicknamed the country bumpkins.
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Some stories are serious and heartfelt, almost poetic, while others derive humor based on a third-person narrative of quasi country bumpkins.
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The plots, language and content of the stories help the reader to look beneath the veneer and to understand the farmers as scheming, greedy, superstitious, provincial country bumpkins.
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