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hick

/hik/US // hɪk //UK // (hɪk) //

乡巴佬,乡下人,乡下佬,乡土气息

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characteristic of hicks: hick ideas.
    • : located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area: a hick town.

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Examples

  • What were your sources for that voice—or voices, because Lincoln is sometimes hick, sometimes Cicero?

  • Now—I like this seriatim thing—as to the business of Sarah Palin “being some sort of trailer trash hick.”

  • When two of the tellers and the bank officers went home to eat the way they did in those hick burgs.

  • Hes something of a hick, you know, and especially in regard to this Sherry and midnight cabaret stuff.

  • Some experiments by John Hick give for the friction of these leathers the following formula.

  • Tell Mr. Hick to call up the police, let them know we have found the missing boy and have them send out a doctor.

  • Is a son of Hick-a-poo or Kick-a-poo, formerly a prominent chief of the tribe.