Explore Hick through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rustic or bumpkin. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Hick meaning
An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
Synonyms of Hick
Using Hick
- The main meaning on this page is: An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
- Useful related words include: rustic, bumpkin, hayseed, yahoo.
- In the example corpus, hick often appears in combinations such as: the hick.
Context around Hick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hick
- In this selection, "hick" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, darren, centralization, saw, likened, email and acknowledges stand out and add context to how "hick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 32 saw hick make his and accept mr hick s resignation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hick" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Me, just a hick in the sticks. (7 words)
Hick likened the natural disaster to a war zone. (9 words)
Hick acknowledges that this process often fails in our world. (10 words)
He is rock music's Robin Williams: his rapid-fire skits include the tortured artist, the naive hick, the asinine beer-monster, the suave clubber and, most often of all, the myopic, lisping clown prince that is rumoured to be the genuine article. (43 words)
The soul-making theodicy John Hick used the term "soul-making" in his theodicy Evil and the God of Love to describe the kind of spiritual development that he believes justifies the existence of evil. (35 words)
Pints can be claimed in any St Austell Brewery managed pub, as well as the Hick’s Bar at the brewery, within three months of them reopening their doors. (29 words)
Example sentences (17)
Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at Furman University, told me he refuses to abandon take-home essays.
After a merger, Taft integrates the joining firm with a mix of autonomy and centralization, Hick said.
A middling Test average of 31.32 saw Hick make his final England appearance in 2001 with the right-hander returning to dominate county bowling attack subsequently.
During their monthly meeting set for August 11th, the Selma Town Council will formally accept Mr. Hick’s resignation and appoint an interim town manager.
He is rock music's Robin Williams: his rapid-fire skits include the tortured artist, the naive hick, the asinine beer-monster, the suave clubber and, most often of all, the myopic, lisping clown prince that is rumoured to be the genuine article.
Pints can be claimed in any St Austell Brewery managed pub, as well as the Hick’s Bar at the brewery, within three months of them reopening their doors.
Freddie the hick to much of a players coach to bench litteraly the worst guard in the nfl.
Hick likened the natural disaster to a war zone.
Hick’s Black Death ended in 2010 and eventually Spacek’s band became Black Death Resurrected.
The Hick email blast came a little over an hour after Walsh posted a goodbye video on his Facebook page.
Me, just a hick in the sticks.
Bird's humble roots were the source of his most frequently used moniker, "The Hick From French Lick".
Hick acknowledges that this process often fails in our world.
If the replica had all the same experiences, traits, and physical appearances of the first person, we would all attribute the same identity to the second, according to Hick.
In Hick's approach, this form of theodicy argues that evil does not exist except as a privation —or corruption of—goodness, and therefore God did not create evil.
Paige, as a Southerner, found that he was an outsider on the Black Sox, and his teammates considered him a hick.
The soul-making theodicy John Hick used the term "soul-making" in his theodicy Evil and the God of Love to describe the kind of spiritual development that he believes justifies the existence of evil.
Common combinations with hick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: