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noun Informal.
an unsophisticated person from a rural area; hick.
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Rube
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- Except in the southeastern quadrant of the country, bourbon has been shunned as the drink of the rube and the codger.
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2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
rube
1896, reub, from shortened form of masc. proper name Reuben (q.v.), which is attested from 1804 as a conventional type of name for a country man.
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