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Bumpkin
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example Sentences
- Sure, he played the bumpkin bewildered in the big city.
- America still turned up its country bumpkin nose at all that mechanical stuff.
- Harris was a bundle of contradictions, at once country bumpkin and city slicker.
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| bumpkin or bumkin2 (ˈbʌmpkɪn) | |
| —n | |
| variant spellings of boomkin | |
| bumkin or bumkin2 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
bumpkin
"awkward country fellow," 1560s, probably from M.Du. bommekijn "little barrel," dim. of boom "tree." Apparently, though itself Dutch, it began as a derogatory reference to Dutch people as short and dumpy.
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