as in hicks
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
a lame comedy about the misadventures of yokels in the big city
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Noun
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Some of us were born black, born from bad classes—the offspring of capitalists, rich peasants, counterrevolutionaries.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026 -
German troops and local peasants hauling military vehicles across a river bank near Moscow, 1941.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 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
Noun
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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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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
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These clowns don't even have the courage of their pathetic White supremacist convictions.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Yokels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yokels. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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