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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bumpkin \Bump"kin\, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave
defines thus: ``Bumkin, Fr chicambault the luffe-block, a
long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and
sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.''
Hence a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a
block of wood; cf OD boomken a little tree. See {Boom} a
pole.]
An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
``Bashful country bumpkins.'' --W. Irving.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bumpkin
n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {yokel},
{rube}, {hick}, {yahoo}, {hayseed}, {chawbacon}]
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