yokel
noun/ˈjəʊkl/
/ˈjəʊkl/
(usually disapproving, often humorous)- if you call a person a yokel, you are saying that they do not have much education or understanding of modern life, because they come from the countrysideWord Originearly 19th cent.: perhaps figuratively from dialect yokel ‘green woodpecker’.
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