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  • noun dated A bumpkin or yokel.

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Examples

  • John, the heir, a yeoman and a fox-hunter, ‘loud and notorious with his whip and spurs,’ settled down into a kind of Tony Lumpkin, waiting for the shoes of his father and his aunt.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • John, the heir, a yeoman and a fox-hunter, 'loud and notorious with his whip and spurs,' settled down into a kind of Tony Lumpkin, waiting for the shoes of his father and his aunt.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

  • Simple devices such as Tony Lumpkin's causing a manor-house to be mistaken for an inn, produces much harmless amusement.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • The fact was, that on the day of nomination, the captain having honoured Mr. Hazeldean with many poetical and figurative appellations, -- such as "Prize Ox," "Tony Lumpkin,"

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • If they didn't like to hear the servants speaking in country dialect, what would they make of the local-yokel accents of Squire (Steve Pemberton) and Mrs. Hardcastle (uproariously played by Sophie Thompson) and her son, Tony Lumpkin (David Fynn), who here demonstrates the manners of his class by scratching his crotch with his half-eaten chicken leg?

    'Laughing Comedy' Continues to Conquer Paul Levy 2012

  • Cush Jumbo matches her well as her genteel cousin, and there is a peach of a performance from David Fynn, who reminds us that Tony Lumpkin, who sets the whole plot up, is less a rustic booby than a good-hearted manipulator.

    She Stoops To Conquer 2012

  • Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Last year, to complete the change, a tomtit was pleased to build her nest within the lock of the Tolbooth, — a strong temptation to have committed a sonnet, had the Author, like Tony Lumpkin, been in a concatenation accordingly.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Sir Charles Grandison and Tony Lumpkin was deplored, and the practical disappearance of anything that could be called Style.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • Quick was substituted for Woodward in Tony Lumpkin, and Lee

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

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