yokel

Yet Mike Huckabee, an authentic by-his-bootstraps populist, was dismissed by the party's actual elite as a country yokel.

Hesitatingly, and like a clumsy yokel, I blurted: I have been wondering whether you cared for the performance I gave?

How can she have cared a hang for Ned, if she's ready to go and marry a yokel, for the sake of a home and respectability?

Some yokel writes in the village paper, as Henley had written before, "James's stuff was not worth doing."

The yokel if he feels inclined for a sleep lies down and takes it just as the dumb creatures do.

For among the mud-larks he recognises one who, early in the day, offered insult to himself, calling him a “country yokel.”