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
1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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hick (hɪk) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| informal | |
| a. a country person; bumpkin | |
| b. (as modifier): hick ideas | |
| [C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard] | |
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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]
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Example sentences
To many of his contemporaries, he had the appearance of a boorish millionaire, a hick made good.
They loathed the corruption and inability of the hick-elites who only took office on a wave of public opinion.
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