How do you use Bumpkin in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like yokel or rube, plus the exact meaning.
Bumpkin meaning
- A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
- A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
- Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
Using Bumpkin
- The main meaning on this page is: A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel. | A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay. | Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
- Useful related words include: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo.
- In the example corpus, bumpkin often appears in combinations such as: country bumpkin.
Context around Bumpkin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bumpkin
- In this selection, "bumpkin" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, country and angeleno stand out and add context to how "bumpkin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and country bumpkin that you and back country bumpkin state. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bumpkin" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bumpkin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That bumpkin has no idea what he’s doing. (9 words)
To the outside world, Idaho may seem like a laid back country bumpkin state. (14 words)
In the event Ragg's was an odd characterisation, anyway: a nerdy country bumpkin whose trousers were as short as his voice was high. (24 words)
He noted, "I couldn't refuse, but I must say when you come from the land of the snow goose, the moose and wool to New York, you're bringing every ton of hayseed and country bumpkin that you packed. (40 words)
But we country bumpkin Angeleno boys are lucky to just find the Big Apple on a map without wondering why it isn’t in an orchard. (26 words)
In the event Ragg's was an odd characterisation, anyway: a nerdy country bumpkin whose trousers were as short as his voice was high. (24 words)
Example sentences (5)
But we country bumpkin Angeleno boys are lucky to just find the Big Apple on a map without wondering why it isn’t in an orchard.
In the event Ragg's was an odd characterisation, anyway: a nerdy country bumpkin whose trousers were as short as his voice was high.
That bumpkin has no idea what he’s doing.
To the outside world, Idaho may seem like a laid back country bumpkin state.
He noted, "I couldn't refuse, but I must say when you come from the land of the snow goose, the moose and wool to New York, you're bringing every ton of hayseed and country bumpkin that you packed.
Common combinations with bumpkin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: