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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to a bumpkin or clown; clownish.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Befitting a bumpkin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. unsophisticated in a manner resembling a lifelong resident of rural areas.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. awkwardly simple and provincial

Etymologies

  1. bumpkin +‎ -ly (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Why, thou hast been so long in the country, that thou hast got a bumpkinly clod-compelling sort of look thyself.”

    Peveril of the Peak

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Words with the same meaning

  1. hick
  1. rustic
  1. unsophisticated

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘bumpkinly’

  1. provincial

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