hawbuck

(ˈhɔːˌbʌk)

a country bumpkin

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Tire mechanic sees his weekly newspaper over his pipe and pot; but the clod-hopper, the chopstick, the hawbuck, the hind, the Johnny Raw, or by whatever name, in whatever district he may be called is everywhere the same--he sees no newspaper and if he did he could not read it [...] He knows there is such a place as the next town, for he goes there to statutes, and to the fair,--and he has heard of Lunnon, and the French, and Buonaparte, and of late years of America.

English folk song collectors and the idea of the peasant

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Hawbuck Grange, or, The Sporting Adventues of Thomas Scott, Esq.

Sporting literature and social consciousness: Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds; or, new blood in old kennels

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