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hick

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hick  (hk) Informal
n.
A person regarded as gullible or provincial: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" Louis Auchincloss.
adj.
Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.
[After Hick, a nickname for Richard, from Middle English Hikke.]
hick
Noun
US, Austral & NZ informal an unsophisticated country person [after Hick, familiar form of Richard]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hickhick - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel
rustic - an unsophisticated country person
Adj.1.hickhick - awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
Translations
Spanish hick [hɪk] n (US) (col) → paleto/a
French hick [hɪk] n (US) (inf) → plouc m, péquenaud(e)
German hick [hɪk] (US) (inf) n → Hinterwäldler m
Italian hick [hɪk] n (US ) (col) → buzzurro/a
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Inside the mill were twenty of the miller's men hewing a stone, and as they went 'Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,' the mill went 'Click clack, click clack, click clack.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
He was as little as possible like the lamented Hicks, especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Take away the soup, Hicks, and to-morrow turn the cook out of the house, Jane.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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