Dictionary 1. (n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.2. (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer. 3. (n.) A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners. Thesaurus Babbitt Philistine arriviste backwoodsman barbarian blockhead blunderer blunderhead boob botcher bounder bourgeois bucolic buffoon bumbler bumpkin bungler cad churl clod clodhopper clodknocker clot clown country bumpkin dolt epicier farmer fumbler galoot gawk gawky goop gowk groundling guttersnipe hayseed hick hillbilly hooligan hoyden ill-bred fellow klutz looby loon lout low fellow lubber lummox mucker nouveau riche oaf ox parvenu peasant philistine provincial ribald rough roughneck rowdy rube ruffian rustic slob slouch slubberer swain upstart vulgarian vulgarist yahoo yokel |