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adjective

hick adj.

Rural. Opposite of urban.

Characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.

Synonyms: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated.

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Etymology of 'Hick'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hick" Quotes from Famous Books

... who, in company with Richard Pynsent, succeeded to Caxton's printing business, in the year 1491, issued from his press the play of "Hick Scorner," and in one of the scenes the stocks are introduced. The works of Shakespeare include numerous allusions to this subject. Launce, in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (IV. 4), says: "I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stolen." ...

— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews

... the back heavily, but jubilantly. "I've diskivered," he said, "that if you can't crack a hick'ry nut with a pad of butter, you better use a hammer.... Sometimes Coldriver's a nut needin' a sledge—but when it ...

— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... would let me set up at the corner of Broad and Wall, I'd own the Stock Exchange in a week. Madison and State is another good stand; so's Market and Kearney, or Pioneer Square, down by the totem pole. New York, Chicago, 'Frisco, Seattle, they're all hick towns. For every city guy that's been stung by a bee there's a hundred that still thinks honey comes from a fruit. This rush is just starting, and the bigger it grows the better we'll do. Say, Kid, if you mush over to Tagish with that load of timothy on your spine, the police ...

— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

Words linked to "Hick" : provincial, yokel, bumpkin, unsophisticated, rube, rustic, bumpkinly, yahoo, chawbacon, hayseed