The word 'rube' is correct and is used in written English.
You can use it as slang for an awkward person who is naive and easily fooled. For example, "He was such a rube he believed everything the con artist told him."
He helped to dispel fears that the young Texan rube would be out of his depth in Washington.
IN HIS first novel, "Player Piano" (1952), Kurt Vonnegut foresaw that industry might one day resemble a "stupendous Rube Goldberg machine" (or as Brits would say, a Heath Robinson contraption).
"You have a very Rube Goldberg system," said Gene Noser, co-founder of the brokerage firm Abel/Noser.
Among the most famous players in the various Negro leagues were Josh Gibson (who was credited with hitting 89 home runs in one season), Satchel Paige, Bill Yancey, John Henry Lloyd, Andrew ("Rube") Foster, and James Thomas ("Cool Papa") Bell.
The rural situation comedy had its foundation in a long American tradition of hayseed humour that included Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip, vaudeville "rube" routines, and the Ma and Pa Kettle movie series of the 1940s and '50s.
He was the profane rube who had a mystical obsession with grammatical punctilio and syntactical clarity.
The Rube-Goldberg-esque interlocking of speed, flight, marksmanship, combat, and acrobatics in elaborate plein-air set pieces are notable feats of visual engineering.
It's made out of teacups and dolls and at one point it opens a garage door using a trombone and an ironing board!" And you'd be right – in fact, it was inspired by Rube Goldberg, with the premise being that girls' toys are too pink and boring, and don't unleash a child's creativity quite like toys for boys.
It is a pity that the world's most technologically advanced country should have voting machines that look as if they were designed by Heath Robinson or Rube Goldberg.
A pair of delightful opposite numbers were W. Heath Robinson and the slightly later Rube Goldberg, who on both sides of the Atlantic created wild half-anthropomorphic parodies of intricate machinery.
Suburban tandem — in appearance surpassing Rube Goldberg's worst nightmare — stores up the dial pulses and decides whether the terminus is manual or automatic.
