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hick

[ hik ]

noun

  1. an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.


adjective

  1. pertaining to or characteristic of hicks:

    hick ideas.

  2. located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area:

    a hick town.

hick

/ ³óɪ°ì /

noun

  1. informal.
    1. a country person; bumpkin
    2. ( as modifier )

      hick ideas

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hick1

1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hick1

C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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But I was a hick from the north of England.

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To find out how the other India lived, JS spent a few days in a dusty hick town in central India.

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“That office is not some small backwoods country hick organization that fumbles the ball and doesn’t know how to do its job.â€

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Mr. Lightfoot, who once called himself a “cosmopolitan hick,†had a shyness that could leave people wanting more.

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Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including “slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.â€

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