Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - bumpkin
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Bumpkin
bumpkin
I. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask Date: 1570 an awkward and unsophisticated rustic • ~ish adjective • ~ly adjective II. noun or bumkin Etymology: probably from Dutch boomken, diminutive of boom tree Date: circa 1632 a spar projecting from a ship especially at the stern
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n. a rustic or socially inept person. Etymology: perh. Du. boomken little tree or MDu. bommekijn little barrel ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(bumpkins) If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. ...unsophisticated country bumpkins. = yokel N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- 1570, probably from M.Du. bommekijn "little barrel," dim. of boom "tree." Apparently began as a derogatory reference to Dutch people as short and dumpy. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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