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hick

[ hik ]

noun

  1. an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.


adjective

  1. pertaining to or characteristic of hicks:

    hick ideas.

  2. located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area:

    a hick town.

hick

/ 丑瑟办 /

noun

  1. informal.
    1. a country person; bumpkin
    2. ( as modifier )

      hick ideas

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hick1

1555鈥65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hick1

C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard
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But I was a hick from the north of England.

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To find out how the other India lived, JS spent a few days in a dusty hick town in central India.

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鈥淭hat office is not some small backwoods country hick organization that fumbles the ball and doesn鈥檛 know how to do its job.鈥

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Mr. Lightfoot, who once called himself a 鈥渃osmopolitan hick,鈥 had a shyness that could leave people wanting more.

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Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including 鈥渟lack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.鈥

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