Entry Word: hick

Function: noun

Meaning: an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country <city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks>

Synonyms bumpkin, clodhopper, countryman, hillbilly, provincial, rustic, yokel

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

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

Antonyms cosmopolitan, sophisticate