Country
Country noun - The land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship.
Yokel and country are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Yokel" instead a noun "Country".
Nearby Word: countryside
Yokel
Yokel noun - An awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country.
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- Country Mouse: Occasional jokes about Mark Lamarr being one due to his origins in Swindon, complete with Mark "slipping into his natural accent" (an exaggerated rural yokel accent).
- Rarity's newer "Simple Ways" feels like a city slicker doing a sillier version of the old TV country music variety show, Hee Haw (in which normally more metro actors would appear as guests on and would try to act "yokel").
- Interestingly, however, he continued to act the part of a rimworld yokel after being elected to the Galactic Senate in order to mask his future power grab, only to drop his country accent and adopt a more posh one once he was named Chancellor and awarded dictatorial powers by the Senate.
Source: Boomerang Bigot
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