as in bumpkins
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
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Noun
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Let the peasants squabble amongst themselves about the refs and how unfair life is.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026 -
Some of us were born black, born from bad classes—the offspring of capitalists, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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That was so, so, so touching, going to a real hospital with the clowns.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Deep cherry red, black, and white come together to create a whimsical world of dice, cards, sad clowns, and a ticking pocketwatch.—
Samantha Brash,
InStyle,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Harry would be right to be bitter; Sally’s optimism was for rubes.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2025
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Using his Hollywood makeup father’s prosthetics, Holliday transforms himself into hayseed-like Chad Powers.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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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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Just like Eddie Bauer, those mountaineers in the ’90s wanted a jacket with excellent warmth-to-weight ratio that could also handle the rigors of climbing.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
4 Feb. 2026
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Ski patrol, mountaineers and even the Lutsen Fire Department jumped into action and started a rope EVAC.—
Tony Peterson,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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For Italy and Latvia and Denmark and even Slovakia and the Czech Republic, every single game is an opportunity to do something that’ll long be remembered in their home nations — something that’ll be etched in stone and on the hearts of their countrymen.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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Regenda, listed at 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds, and his countrymen return to the Olympic stage again this week in Milan Cortina as Slovakia begins play in Group B on Wednesday against Finland.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Hicks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hicks. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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