as in hayseeds
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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The forces of the lords put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy thousand and a hundred thousand peasants.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Perhaps 200,000 peasants supported a population of 3 million people in the Nile Valley in the 2nd millennium BCE.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For Jones, that means confronting her childhood fear of clowns.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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In an operating room, a mad doctor performs plastic surgery to turn new recruits into killer clowns.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 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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“Yokels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yokels. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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