rube

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Still, to dismiss Ahmadinejad as a rube is to misunderstand him.

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  1. noun Slang An unsophisticated country person.

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  • You don't lie to the America people, You don't through a rube (GW) out to the people to explain a concept he really doesn't understand (GW Bush is a neocon only by default). —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • I have plenty of education, rube, and I USE my brain! —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • I imagine that the business titans of the day saw Tesla as a rube, bumpkin, and an immigrant too! —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Still, to dismiss Ahmadinejad as a rube is to misunderstand him. —  The New Yorker
  • At the risk of sounding like a rube, this amount of space almost feels like an indulgence, a luxury, a sin against those of us who parse our world and value every parcel. —  New York Daily Photo
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  1. Probably from Rube, nickname for Reuben.

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  1. A generalized use of Rube, a rustic abbreviation of Reuben, taken, like Joshua, as a type of a homely country name.
 

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