hick

¹hick

noun \ˈhik\

Definition of HICK

: an unsophisticated provincial person

— hick·ish \ˈhi-kish\ adjective

Examples of HICK

1. We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
2. <city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks>

Origin of HICK

Hick, nickname for Richard

First Known Use: 1669

Related to HICK

Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel

Antonyms: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticate

Related Words: boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineer

Near Antonyms: slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbanite

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Rhymes with HICK

brick, chick, click, crick, creek, Dick, flick, Frick, kick, KWIC, lick, mick, nick, pic, pick, prick, quick, rick, Schick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, snick, stick, thick, tic, tick, trick, wick