as in peasants
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
the townspeople were offended by the documentary's portrayal of them as an unwashed mass of chawbacons
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Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026 -
In the early nineteenth century, after Egyptian peasants happened upon ancient fragments, archaeologists began to look in such places for pieces of manuscript, which could vary in size from a few letters to a slice of text.—
Madeleine Schwartz,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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Bunch of virtue signaling clowns!—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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So a bunch of hicks from Topeka were left up to our own devices of going down to Robert Hall and finding something that might be kind of cool.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
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Simply put, the small-town bumpkins from North Florida who support this idea should be made to pay for it.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Feb. 2026
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It was left to the feds in Boston to arrest Farwell, after Meatball’s local yokels adamantly refused to do anything other than try to broom the crime by one of their own.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.—
Heller McAlpin,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Sep. 2025
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This block featured Argentina’s first game of the tournament, played at Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Stadium), and thousands who didn’t buy tickets to the game flocked to watch it at the festival with their fellow countrymen.—
Sophia Lindberg,
Kansas City Star,
22 June 2026
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The stadium was filled with Jordan nationals making the near 7,500-mile trek to watch their countrymen make their World Cup debut.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
17 June 2026
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Duke Slater, pal of Jim Nabors’ hayseed Gomer Pyle on the ’60s sitcom of that name, died of natural causes today at UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
12 June 2026
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Baby Billy’s first full-frontal scene is more a testament to Walton Goggins’s incredible hayseed bravado in the rule.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Chawbacons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chawbacons. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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