- bumpkinish
- adjective see bumpkin I
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
bumpkinish
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bumpkinish — adj. awkward, clumsy … English contemporary dictionary
bumpkinish — bumpˈkinish adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑bumpkin … Useful english dictionary
bumpkin — I. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask Date: 1570 an awkward and unsophisticated rustic • bumpkinish adjective • bumpkinly adjective II. noun or bumkin … New Collegiate Dictionary
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bumpkin — bumpkin1 bumpkinish, bumpkinly, adj. /bump kin/, n. an awkward, simple rustic; yokel. [1560 70; < MD bommekijn little barrel, equiv. to boom BEAM + kijn KIN] Syn. clod, boor, hillbilly, hayseed, rube, hick, yahoo. bumpkin2 /bump kin/, n. Naut. a… … Universalium
bumpkin — noun an unsophisticated country person. Derivatives bumpkinish adjective Origin C16: perh. from Du. boomken little tree or MDu. bommekijn little barrel , denoting a dumpy person … English new terms dictionary
unpolished — adj 1. rough, rough hewn, rude, crude; coarse, gross, vulgar, loutish, boorish, ill bred, brought up in a barn; gauche, awkward, uncouth, ungainly; disadvantaged, from the wrong side of the tracks. 2. uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
