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yokel

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An unsophisticated person.

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Related: Experience: my face was stolen online At first, Big Bird wasn't a major character, and Jim Henson, who developed the characters, said to play him like a goofy yokel from the country.

That is also why Steve, a well-built yokel who lays the fraudulent scent-trails, refers to the huntsman as "Sir".

As the BIS accepts Against the background of weak growth and high unemployment in many advanced economies, sustained monetary easing is natural and compelling.This is a bit of a "yokel" problem, as in the rustic who when asked for directions, replies "I wouldn't start from here".

For all its Baudelairian modernity, there are throwbacks to an earlier time: the straw-hatted yokel in Moseley Weir, Morning looks as if he has wandered in from a Constable.

The sense of hardscrabble desperation is embodied in the opening episode by Poldark's fight with a local yokel; involving neither buckle nor swash, it instead begins with a head butt and ends with a knee in the face.

And this April he portrays a cuckolded "yokel butcher" in Calvary, the latest black comedy-drama from The Guard's John Michael McDonagh.

But how to explain this to Clare without arousing the suspicion that I'm just another smarmy, eel-slippery, promise-'em-anything yokel, hyperventilating to unload a house that's crumbling from the ground up?

Filosofov insisted that the members of the Society accept Diaghilev, which they did reluctantly, because he seemed to them — above all, to Benois — such a yokel.

Second, the cattle may have that careless, free-range look, as if tended by some off-camera yokel fluting away on a tin whistle; but their meat — thanks to the memory of B.S.E.

Franz, a twenty-something rural yokel goes to work at his uncle's Berlin department store and is pulled into an affair by his lubricious aunt.

Wallace's inquiry centered on Garner's "A Dictionary of Modern American Usage," a new entry in the ongoing national battle to communicate without seeming like a fool, a yokel, or a toff.

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