Define the word hick"hick" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
hick \hick\ n.
A person who is not very intelligent or interested in
culture; a hayseed.
Syn: yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.
[WordNet 1.5]
"hick" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
hick \hick\ adj.
1. rural. Opposite of urban.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not
knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as,
hick ideas; a hick town.
Syn: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated.
[WordNet 1.5] hickey
"hick" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
hick
adj : awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
"rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly,
rustic, unsophisticated]
n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel,
rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
"hick" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "hick":
babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child,
child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping,
clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin,
country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer,
farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk,
gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly,
hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout,
loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff,
muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul,
slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured,
unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop,
yokel, yokelish
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