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hick

  [hik]
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–noun
1. an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
–adjective
2. pertaining to or characteristic of hicks: hick ideas.
3. located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area: a hick town.
Origin:
1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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hick   (hĭk)   
n.  A person regarded as gullible or provincial: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" (Louis Auchincloss).
adj.  Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.

[After Hick, a nickname for Richard, from Middle English Hikke.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

hick 
1376, nickname of Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" is first recorded 1565 (cf. rube). The adj. is first recorded 1920, in Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street": "He graduated from a hick college in Pennsylvania."
"A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be." [Robert Quillen, 1933]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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