Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country.
- adjective Provincial; unsophisticated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hop; spring.
- See
hic . - noun A countryman: used like
hodge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.
- adjective rural. Opposite of
urban . - adjective characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
hiccup - noun pejorative An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- adjective awkwardly simple and provincial
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully she is going to be out of our lives for good.
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Another teabagging hick is caught C&Ping lame arse talking points from Anchor Baby Malkin.
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Maybe I'm just a damn hick from the deep south, but that's not my idea of fun.
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Thank God this nightmarish hick is leaving public office and hopefully out of our lives for good.
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Oops …. .another teabagging hick is caught in a lie.
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Maybe I'm just a damn hick from the deep south, but that's not my idea of fun.
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By the time the bogeyman came for Moustapha Akkad, he had bigger fish to fry: mass slaughter not of stock types in hick burgs but of powerful and well-connected elites in Amman's Western hotels.
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By the time the bogeyman came for Moustapha Akkad, he had bigger fish to fry: mass slaughter not of stock types in hick burgs but of powerful and well-connected elites in Amman's Western hotels.
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By the time the bogeyman came for Moustapha Akkad, he had bigger fish to fry: mass slaughter not of stock types in hick burgs but of powerful and well-connected elites in Amman's Western hotels.
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This is very unprofessional - well I'll call it 'hick town the fix is in' stuff.
Sound Politics: King County Journal didn't give Franz a chance 2006
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