Y is for yokel
Synonyms of yokel are these:
oaf, hick, rube, bumpkin, hayseed, clodhopper
and in the Hoosier state, a yokel is known as hillbilly. (hence my photo of a mountain scene)
"Li’l Abner", a yokel of comic strip fame by cartoonist Al Capp, went to Broadway in 1956. Three classmates of mine and I were treated by a father of one to see "Li'l Abner" on our Senior Trip in 1957.
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Comments
Leslie
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
When I read the word Yokel I immediately think of a dairyman in a
white smock with string around the knees of his trousers, milking
his cows. I guess the string around his knees would keep his trouserfrom trailing
in the muck on the floor of the milking barn.
In the UK we're more inclined to call a yokel a country bumkin.
Best wishes to you for 2017.
Di.
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Lovely photo in your header too.... quit some time befor my birth
Wishing you a magnificent New Year
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Ann
Ann, me too! We lived in the country 27 years.
Trubes, I love that we can visualize different images when given a word like this.
Melody, most people I meet nowadays would think of anyone my age as ancient. That's okay, I love having lived through that era.
John, the word 'rube' was used even before I was born, and it was used only in movies of that era.
Leslie, you must have been really young at that time to recall that cartoon.
ROG, ABCW