Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unsophisticated country person.
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- noun A person of
rural heritage; ayokel . - noun pejorative An
uninformed ,unsophisticated , orunintelligent person.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rubingh includes the Dutch word rube, meaning 'peasant.'
Chicago Reader 2010
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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This moronic Neugebauer rube is also a birther … ….
Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer? 2010
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
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* On the Alabama coast one can command more money from some Wisconsin rube than one can expect from a native Mobilian.
bilby commented on the word rube
"I’m sure that scene caused gales of laughter in the blue states, because there’s nothing more hilarious than making fun of the Jesus-believing rubes."
- 'Beowulf' review, Michael Karounos, Nov 2007.
December 1, 2007
bilby commented on the word rube
"Reason and rationality told him that Stark could not be out there, ramming around like some weird cancer in human form, killing people. As the country rube in Oliver Goldsmith's 'She Stoops To Conquer' was wont to say, it was perfectly unpossible, Diggory."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007
yarb commented on the word rube
'"Where did they go? You know, day after day I stand here - wondering just where do they go!" That's Thurston's gag. By God, I'm going to use it until I see one face - just one - in this bunch of rubes that gets the point. They never do.'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
June 30, 2012