hick

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.

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[After Hick, a nickname for Richard, from Middle English Hikke.]

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hick [hɪk]

n

Informal

a.  a country person; bumpkin

b.  (as modifier) hick ideas

[after Hick, familiar form of Richard]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hick - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel rustic - an unsophisticated country person
Adj.	1.	hick - 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"

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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. ADJ → rústico, de aldea

B. N → pueblerino/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. n → burino/a

2. adj (ideas) → da burino/a; (town) → provinciale

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hick [hɪk] (Am) (fam)

1. n → burino/a

2. adj (ideas) → da burino/a; (town) → provinciale