yokel

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• UK: /ˈjəʊ.kəl/
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• US: /ˈjoʊ.kəl/
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• rhymes with -əʊkəl
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• homophone: jokul
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• CMU ARPABET: Y OW1 K EH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“a peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“a European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: селяк (seljak) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Bulgarian: селячка (seljačka) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Bulgarian: селяндур (seljandur) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Catalan: taujà — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Catalan: pagerol — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Chinese Mandarin: 土包子 (tǔbāozi) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Chinese Mandarin: 鄉下人 /乡下人 (xiāngxiàrén) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Chinese Mandarin: 鄉巴佬 /乡巴佬 (xiāngbalǎo) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Czech: (venkovský) balík — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Czech: křupan — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Czech: buran — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Danish: bonderøv — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Danish: bondeknold — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Dutch: boerenlul — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Dutch: boertje van buut'n — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Esperanto: kamparano — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Esperanto: kamparanaĉo — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Finnish: maalaisjuntti — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Finnish: juntti — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• French: manant — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• French: plouc — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Galician: pailán — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Galician: pailana — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Galician: pailaroco — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Galician: paifoco — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Galician: pastrán — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Georgian: ტეტია (ṭeṭia) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Georgian: გაგრია (gagria) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Bauerntölpel — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Hinterwäldler — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Tölpel — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Hanswurst — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Simpel — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Einfaltspinsel — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• German: Naivling — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hindi: गवार (gavār) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hindi: देहाती (dehātī) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: paraszt — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: suttyó — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: tahó — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: prosztó — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: bugris — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Hungarian: mucsai — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: villico — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: campagnolo — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: bifolco — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: zappaterra — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: rozzo — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: becero — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: cafone — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: buzzurro — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: villano — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Italian: zoticone — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Japanese: 田舎者 (inakamono) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Japanese: いなかっぺ — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Latin: petrō — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Latvian: pāķis — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Latvian: lauķis — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Macedonian: се́ланец (sélanec) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Macedonian: се́лјак (séljak) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Māori: panekāka — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Plautdietsch: Dommabua — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Polish: gbur — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Polish: kindybał — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Polish: ordynus — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Polish: prostak — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Polish: prostaczka — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Portuguese: caipira — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Portuguese: saloio — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Portuguese: campónio — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Portuguese: labrego — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Punjabi: ਪੇਂਡੂ (peṇḍū) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Punjabi: پینْڈُو (penḍū) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Romanian: țăran — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Romanian: mojic — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Romanian: bădăran — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Russian: дереве́нщина (derevénščina) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Serbo-Croatian: seljak — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Serbo-Croatian: seljačina — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Spanish: palurdo — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Spanish: paleto — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Spanish: chúntaro — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Spanish: gueishpo — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Turkish: maganda — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Yiddish: קליינשטעטלדיקער (kleynshtetldiker) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Yiddish: קליינשטעטלדיקע (kleynshtetldike) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Yiddish: פּויער (poyer) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Yiddish: פּויערטע (poyerte) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive
• Yiddish: גלאָמפּ (glomp) — a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive