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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 [hɪk]
n
Informal
a.  a country person; bumpkin
b.  (as modifier) hick ideas
[after Hick, familiar form of Richard]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hickhick - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
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"
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

hick
noun (Informal) yokel, peasant, rustic, redneck, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal) He is an obnoxious hick.
Translations
hick [hɪk] (US) (pej)
A. ADJrústico, de aldea
B. Npueblerino/a m/f, paleto/a m/f (Sp)
hick [ˈhɪk] n (US)plouc m, péquenaud(e) m/f
hick town n (US)trou m paumé >, bled m paumé >
hick
n (US inf) → Hinterwäldler(in) m(f) (inf); (female also) → Landpomeranze f (inf)
hick [hɪk] (Am) (fam)
1. nburino/a
2. adj (ideas) → da burino/a; (town) → provinciale

hick [hɪk] (Am) (fam)
1. nburino/a
2. adj (ideas) → da burino/a; (town) → provinciale


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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.
He was as little as possible like the lamented Hicks, especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance.
Take away the soup, Hicks, and to-morrow turn the cook out of the house, Jane.
 
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