| 单词 | bumpkin |
| 例句 | “But I’m a country bumpkin and this is my first city party so you have to forgive me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “You actually said country bumpkin,’” Ifemelu said, her voice high above the music. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "You blithering bumpkin!" screeched The Grand High Witch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “Big country bumpkin, eh, Chief? One more word from you back there and she’d have thrown that table and crushed us.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Dad was making us sound like country bumpkins. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And she went on her way, nodding and winking at the servants standing about and motioning to Wang Lung as at one of whom she said, “There is a country bumpkin!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “No, it was good thinking. I don’t speak fluent bumpkin and he’ll be more likely to open up to someone who does.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And the bumpkin stood it humbly, blubbering a little and sucking his teeth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I thought you said you didn’t speak bumpkin.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Some of us have work to do, and it doesn’t involve blathering about like bumpkins.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He had to prove he was not a bumpkin, but just once. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He kept saying she was a big bumpkin pumpkin and I don’t think she would have even done anything except he kept cackling in her ear. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I could only nod and smile and hope I didn’t seem too much of a bumpkin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I live in Salinas,” Abra said in such a tone that they knew they were dealing with a superior being who hadn’t time for bumpkin pleasures. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As Elly May, Ms. Douglas seemed blissfully unaware of her status as a bumpkin blond bombshell. Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett on ‘The Beverly Hillbillies,’ dies 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z In his unpublished manuscript, Butterfield described Nixon as an “ignorant boor, a bumpkin.” The man who knew too much about Richard Nixon 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The show tries to put her actions in a context of rural economic malaise and male entitlement, but it mostly condescends to her, and Lyle comes off as a hapless bumpkin. Review: A Sensational Prison Escape, Without the Sensation 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Jesus was an extremely poor Galilean peasant from the countryside, from the backwoods, what we would nowadays refer to as a “country bumpkin.” “You want people like that to hate you”: Reza Aslan on Glenn Beck, that Fox News interview, and who gets to speak for Jesus 2014-04-20T10:59:00Z Will Germont, his father, be kind of a jerk or a decent but ignorant bumpkin? Review | Washington National Opera appeases traditionalists with a safe ‘Traviata’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z There was a point to this, killing off all manner of confused extraneous bumpkins, dropping the "Farm" and turning the show into a bizarre proto-Skins. Corrie disaster 2010-07-08T13:32:00Z A brash bumpkin from the countryside comes to the city, dreaming of stardom. ‘The Harder They Come’: A Pop Classic That Has Hardly Faded 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “Breaking” was the story of the bumpkin let loose in the big city, like “Babe” with people instead of a pig, while “Mafia” is thugs in black felt hats. Television Review: ‘Amish Mafia,’ on Discovery Channel 2012-12-11T22:46:55Z After all, she herself said people expect her to be a “little country bumpkin.” 'The Voice' recap: The coaches top off their teams in final blinds 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Could she fall for a bumpkin like Lee? ‘I,’ a Tamil Film by Shankar, Starring Vikram 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But, as the book shows, Mr Hun Sen’s ascent from country bumpkin to virtual deity, with little formal education, is remarkable. Miracle or mirage? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Following those good-hearted bumpkins to the Iowa State Fair and watching them collide with the preening city slickers from Des Moines was like watching a new nation being born. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z When he was younger, he mainly played country bumpkins on TV shows because of his Southern drawl. Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton dies at 81 2011-12-22T15:45:14Z A bumpkin in medieval sackcloth smokes a Lucky Strike. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z Or maybe instead you're just a bumpkin who buys your clothes in a warehouse and watches TV on your tattered couch. 2009-12-18T01:18:00Z A self-doubting, underconfident man thought by many to be a country bumpkin, Bruckner began his mature work as a composer relatively late. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z Are these bumpkins as lowbrow and unsophisticated as they appear? ‘Branson Famous’ Explores the Baldknobbers Jamboree 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z As the lovesick small-town bumpkin Nemorino in Donizetti’s classic, deliriously entertaining comedy “The Elixir of Love,” this 29-year-old tenor sang with sincerity and style and acted with energy in his New York stage debut. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z Biographers of Bruckner typically note a gap between his bumpkin exterior and interior genius. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In Joseph P. McCarthy's accomplished, endearing turn, Jimmy is an unworldly bumpkin and class clown. 'The Pitmen Painters': Miners discover their inner artist 2012-04-30T19:59:04Z When she met him at a party in her home town of Chicago, she found him a charmingly shy and unworldly urban bumpkin. The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “They were farmers or children or farmers, bumpkins most of them,” Mr. Penn wrote of the 1930s gangsters who inspired the story. Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z And Lincoln, the bumpkin lawyer, is ambivalent about landing in her web. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Charles Haggerty was an intelligent man with a “gruff country exterior” that made him look like the stereotypical “country bumpkin hick,” Haggerty says. WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Ferociously single-minded, very impressed with herself and determined to take her new school by storm, she’s also a quick-to-embarrass country bumpkin, a classic setup for teenage comedy. British Spies, Japanese Teens and a German Cop’s Wild Ride 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Heehawley: A Stanford and Yale graduate who poses as a bumpkin for political gain. Style Invitational Week 1465: Put your ’22 cents in with predictions for next year 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He’s the supremely manipulative country bumpkin grinning his victims into submission. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z He has appeared as Baron Ochs, the wealthy bumpkin eager to marry a beautiful young girl, in Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” in Melbourne, Australia. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Except for an ineffectual priest and an imam, whose houses of worship sit side by side, those men are hotheaded bumpkins who profess brotherhood until the tiniest provocation incites them to blind fury. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z But while Mr. Grigòlo may not have been able to tame his magnetism to play a bumpkin with low self esteem, his energy was irresistible and his Nemorino ultimately endearing. Review: ‘L’Elisir d’Amore,’ With Vittorio Grigòlo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z A cluster of townspeople who might have been written off as bumpkins, drunkards and clowns coalesces into something like a lynch mob. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “He wasn’t a rube or a bumpkin, but he also didn’t grow up in the big city, so he retained the perspective of an outsider who was embraced by those who had.” Robert Benchley’s Legacy in a Era of Fraught Comedy 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Seeing that their fate is now placed in the hands of some bumpkin from the U.S. doesn't give them much hope . . . until Ted gets to work, partly inspired by that Walt Whitman quote. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z I have always thought that if the old boy can wake a Tennessee bumpkin to literature and history, to irony and rhetoric, he can do anything. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z So a school that I had never visited, Harvard, took an enormous risk and accepted me, and I became a token country bumpkin to round out a class of polished overachievers. The real college admissions scandal | Nicholas D. Kristof 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Lasso is initially portrayed as a naïve bumpkin with little understanding of the sport, his team or the country he’s living in. Who Is Liable for A.I. Creations? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire. After four decades, 'A Soldier's Play' is still urgent in Tony-winning revival 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z He checks all the right boxes, so to speak, unlike that provincial bumpkin from Stratford. Review | As we honor Shakespeare, scholars respond to questions about him 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Villages are so important to Ukrainians, in fact, that Ukraine is sometimes caricatured as a nation of bumpkins devoted to garden plots and pastoral landscapes. At Ukraine’s Gravesites, a Spring Ritual Hints at Renewal 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Hemedti comes from Darfur, and the Sudanese elite often talk about him and his soldiers in pejorative terms, as "country bumpkins" unfit to rule the state. Sudan crisis: Burhan and Hemedti - the two generals at the heart of the conflict 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “Here we were, little country bumpkins from south Memphis in front of a hundred thousand people, and we actually stole the show!” 50 years ago, the Wattstax concert made, and even changed, L.A. history 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Yet the admiration was not mutual, since many Hong Kong visitors viewed their mainland cousins as country bumpkins, said Fang Yan, who came to Shenzhen in the 1980s. In China's Shenzhen, nostalgia persists for the old days of Hong Kong culture 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "Thirty years ago, mainland people were... thought to be country bumpkins. And now the richest people in Hong Kong are tourists or investors from the mainland," anthropologist Gordon Mathews told the BBC at the time. China and Hong Kong: The highs and lows since handover 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Zach, who grew up in a rural town in Virginia, worried the comment was stereotyping him as being a “country bumpkin.” Date Lab: An awkward exchange kicked off the evening 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z I hear people dismissing them as “rednecks” and “bubbas” and “bumpkins.” Opinion | Why I don’t complain about racism to White people 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z He wasn’t the same country bumpkin who was introduced as USC’s new head coach three weeks earlier. Hernández: Lincoln Riley starts USC rebuilding with statement on local recruits 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z The book quotes an actor who plays a Uyghur "country bumpkin" saying that ethnicity is "not a problem" there. Special Report: Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm to win Beijing's favor, document shows 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z When people outside Louisiana ask me about Kennedy, I tell them he’s not the folksy bumpkin you see on TV, but a wealthy, well-educated attorney with an Oxford degree. Opinion | Our Foghorn Leghorn Republican senator little resembles his former Democratic self, but in Louisiana we know the type 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z "Just because I'm from the South, people expect me to be all country bumpkin, out riding four-wheelers all the time, but that's not really how it is," Thompson said. Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson poses for glam magazine shoot ahead of 16th birthday 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z This archetypal bumpkin villain of post-Trump America has long received too much credit in a country where Trumpism thrives in affluent, white urban communities bursting with college degrees. Opinion | What to Do With Our Covid Rage 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Far from a first-degree murder defendant facing life in prison, he looked like a bumpkin who had won a new tractor. Allegations of a wild murder conspiracy involving CHP officers, lawyer, wife, daughter 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The club kids ignored us, they were all so sophisticated in their debauchery; we were bumpkins. The gold chain that got away 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z When a city slicker is outfoxed by a country bumpkin, we consider it just, yet we think it unfair the other way around. Pop culture isn't biased toward 'coastal elites.' If anything, it's the reverse 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z A bumpkin seeks fame and fortune in the big city under the impression he’s been offered a screen test. Movies on TV this week: 'Stand by Me' on Showtime and more 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z “Everyone thought he was a bumpkin but they underestimated his ruthless acumen.” Belarus Protests Test Limits of Lukashenko’s Brutal, One-Man Rule 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “I am not a bumpkin that fell off a wagon; I encourage people to listen for themselves,” Mr. Schartel said. Playing on Kansas City Radio: Russian Propaganda 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Next to the country bumpkin, the city slicker comes up short. On TV, country is the soundtrack to the American dream 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z A country bumpkin faces ridicule and corruption when he takes his idealistic views to the nation’s capital. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Now, as you sensed, I’m a bit of a bumpkin. Hollywood Bowl rehearsals are a soothing morning escape. And they're free 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z King himself starred in one of them as a bumpkin forever transformed by his encounter with a mysterious meteorite. 'Creepshow' trailer teases revival of Stephen King and George A. Romero's iconic horror anthology 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z This “bumpkin” was also described by a woman in 1935 as an “angel sent by God.” Perspective | Yes, Trump is undignified. Demagogues have to be. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Whether the judge finds that the FBI frightened that callow young bumpkin, retired Lt. Michael Flynn, the FBI and the far right's latest nutbar conspiracy theory 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “Here comes this country bumpkin with pantaloons and long hair that he held down with bear grease, with these life-like birds,” Becker said. The $8 million Audubon book about birds, and the amazing story behind it 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Sometimes it seems you futz up everything you touch, but you get this open rehearsal right, this little bone you throw to serfs and country bumpkins like me. Hollywood Bowl rehearsals are a soothing morning escape. And they're free 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z I don't think he is quite the village bumpkin many believe/assume him to be. North Korean Leader, Known for His Bluster, Reveals Diplomatic Skills 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young once remarked that “everybody became a country bumpkin when they walked into the Hyatt.” John C. Portman Jr., architect who re-envisioned the modern hotel, dies at 93 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “For all Y. A.’s bumpkin ways, I suspect the city saw in him a reflection of itself,” the former Giants star and broadcaster Frank Gifford remarked in his 1993 memoir, “The Whole Ten Yards.” Y.A. Tittle, Quarterback Who Led Giants to 3 Title Games, Dies at 90 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But someday, perhaps, a statue will be built to honor a country bumpkin who rose to the moment in history, and shoved totalitarianism into the grave. How Gorbachev evolved into a radical proponent of change 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The characters are mostly sketchily drawn, with bad guys who are little more than caricatures of rustic bumpkins. Review | ‘Kidnap’: Halle Berry plays a mother who’ll stop at nothing to rescue her abducted son 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z His brother, Piers, now a meteorologist known for denying that climate change is a product of human activity, has described the Corbyn boys as "country bumpkins". The Jeremy Corbyn Story: Profile of Labour leader - BBC News 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z There are many reasons working-class conservatives vote against their economic interests — abortion and gun issues count heavily for some — but another is the mockery of Democrats who deride them as ignorant bumpkins. We must win over, not deride, Trump voters 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z But on the show, he and his family were treated like country bumpkins. The daredevils feeding a dangerous Russian craze - BBC News 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z I thought it was just a bush-league, politically naive move in a bumpkin rural county — until I got into national politics. All politics are local — and usually stupid 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The new chairman took up residence in Washington looking for all the world like a country bumpkin lawyer. How Reince Priebus led Donald Trump to victory 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The Viennese must have looked upon Mahler as a real country bumpkin. Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk music, art and creativity 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z We would eat at the Automat, stare upward like bumpkins at the skyscrapers and scan the crowds for movie stars. A Chance Encounter With an Extremely Minor Celebrity 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Hiroko was a sophisticated city girl and thought he was cute, in a country bumpkin kind of way. Newlywed in a new land: The stories of Japanese war brides 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The narrative seemed incomplete, so I story-boarded the next scene: The bumpkin abandons his steed and climbs into Avery’s car. The perfect Route 66 road trip for the Main Street of America’s 90th birthday 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In North Carolina, I was an arriviste; in New York, some part of me would always be a bumpkin, marvelling at the existence of “doorman buildings” and thinking the phrase “plus one” a little mean. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “Why didn’t you correct those? I’m going to come across as some country bumpkin,” she asked him. 'War Stories Shouldn’t Be Easy, True War Stories Never Are' 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z I worried I would seem like a total country bumpkin. A Teaching Stint in Japan Helps a CEO Close a Deal 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Act surprised when an athlete gets exposed, and you’re dismissed as a naïf, a bumpkin, a sucker for fairy tales. Olympic Doping Just Part of Sick Spectacle 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z By today's standards the gals in bikinis, the stereotyped American Indians and country bumpkins might be considered inappropriate. Rescuing America's roadside giants - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Yeah, I don't get why the Times has to make Indiana look like a bunch of country bumpkins. The Most Important Primary Is ... Wait, Indiana? 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z To say that members of Congress are parochial is not to say that they are a bunch of country bumpkins. It’s so much worse than just Paul Ryan vs Nancy Pelosi: This is why Congress is a disaster 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z What she was really saying was that they were country bumpkins, not part of the ritzy DC establishment that she inhabited, and they needed to be punished for it. They’ll always despise her: The media has its Hillary narrative, and they’re sticking to it 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Regular mezcal, meanwhile, largely remained humble, unromantic, bumpkinly, but with its own mythology. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The hillbilly is no simpleton, no bumpkin, though often dismissed as such in popular culture. This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z He managed the transition to PBS in 1971 and settled Bill into his role as the more intellectually elegant, American version of that British bumpkin, Alistair Cooke. A Bill Buckley Lesson for Conservatism Today 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Lawyers from other parts of the state, he said with a laugh, “still think I’m a country bumpkin.” Super Bowl Spotlight on Santa Clara Reveals How It Has Changed 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Imagine a peddler roaming from village to village; he might seem a comic country bumpkin. The genie grown monstrous: How Donald Trump, the all-American Frankenstein, devoured the GOP 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Only ideological bumpkins and urban rustics take Bernie’s description of himself as a Socialist seriously. WESLEY PRUDEN: Bernie Sanders thinks he wants a run at the Merry Prankster 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In one episode Mr Morales played Neto, a country bumpkin who inadvertently becomes president. No joke 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z After years of being portrayed as gangsters, addicts or bumpkins, Puerto Rican youths embraced the militancy and pride promoted by the Young Lords, and defiantly took to the streets. ‘Not an Objective Observer’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, local rivals, long dismissed by Hollywood moguls as unsophisticated bumpkins, are getting into their stride. Lost in Shangywood 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He was a bumpkin, and the others teased him for it with an cruelty that looked, to Sidoti, like bullying. Yahya's luck - BBC News 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But in the public conversation Donald Trump is no longer the buffoon, the baboon, the clown or the country bumpkin from the corn and hay fields of Manhattan. WESLEY PRUDEN: The anger at Donald Trump softens 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In coming years, any bumpkin who spat in a theater might be scolded with “A Trollope, a Trollope!” Reading American cities: books about Cincinnati 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “Country bumpkin, little/no makeup, calico print dresses & boots” 3 Perfect Ways to Ruin Your Brand 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z If you wonder why today’s slick, global, rich league needs this throwback to its bumpkin, it’s–you guessed it–always been this way. Why NBA Has So Many Dumb Rules--And Won't Change Them 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z "He was kind of a phony, portraying himself as a country bumpkin when in fact he was a corporate lawyer," Wheeler said. Ex- Illinois Gov. Walker, who served prison term, dies at 92 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z "That photograph established Lincoln not as a hayseed or bumpkin but as a sober, respectable, powerful intellectual who could become president," says David Ward, senior historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The enduring images of Abraham Lincoln 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Lincoln’s enemies frequently portrayed him as an illiterate country bumpkin. The Secret of Abraham Lincoln’s Success as a Writer? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The apotheosis of the modern bumpkin mode has been embodied by Sarah Palin, who nearly found herself one 72-year-old heartbeat from our highest national office. The Bumpkinification of the Midterm Elections 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z What Ireland needs now, above all, is peace” Even in later life, he never shook off his country roots, being labelled a "bumpkin" by his political opponents. Obituary: Albert Reynolds 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z One of them was a bumpkin that actors began playing as a melancholy clown. Genius, Mensch, Sad Clown: Dissecting What Robin Williams Really Meant to People 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z But Thailand’s entrenched elite soon tired of this parvenu, accusing him of buying votes from gullible bumpkins and even of angling to replace the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej as the object of popular adoration. If There's Going to Be a Thai Civil War, Isaan Will Be Its Front Line 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Then, when I went to Oxford, I was told that I sounded like a cross between an angry young man and a country bumpkin. Essays: In Praise of the Midlands 2014-04-21T00:21:22Z In a sense, Jefferson Smith, the plucked-from-nowhere senator played by Jimmy Stewart, came to represent the ideal of the pure-hearted Washington bumpkin. The Bumpkinification of the Midterm Elections 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Anyway, I’m not sure the guy dissing “country bumpkins” should be griping about cultural insensitivity. These Republican Scandals Are Not Scandals 2014-03-31T20:47:37Z Skepticism to global sports pageantry is a default setting, open excitement the mark of tourists and country bumpkins. Sochi’s post-Olympics time bomb: Can the city survive when the games are gone? 2014-02-09T00:00:00Z Tribal leaders and local elected officials held a news conference last week, speaking out against a film that they claim portrays them as trashy backwoods bumpkins involved in drugs and violence. New Film, ‘Out of the Furnace,’ Accused of Stereotyping Ramapough Indians 2013-12-12T03:08:59Z We had read about things in the press beforehand - we were classed as country bumpkins. The night Norwich's 'country bumpkins' stunned Bayern 2013-10-18T22:44:41Z In a D.C. twist, those bumpkins we see on our screens are often not even real bumpkins so much as some rich guy’s idea of what a bumpkin should be. The Bumpkinification of the Midterm Elections 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Fernandez thought clueless Anglos who didn’t understand Florida were controlling the Scott campaign.“Would you hire me to manage a campaign in Mississippi for a country bumpkin?” he asked. These Republican Scandals Are Not Scandals 2014-03-31T20:47:37Z There is not an exact translation, but it is something like country bumpkins, gullible fools, idiots. Barcelona's 'black night' draws criticism as warning signs ignored in Milan 2013-02-21T11:14:29Z Sure, there were bumpkins on “The Andy Griffith Show,” including Don Knotts’s Barney Fife, one of television’s great goofballs, but there was a rock of clear country thinking at the core. An Appraisal: Andy Griffith’s Sheriff Gave Stature to Small-Town Smarts 2012-07-04T03:47:18Z Mr. Griffith’s fans may have imagined him as a happy bumpkin, but he enjoyed life in Hollywood and knew his way around a wine list. Andy Griffith, Actor, Dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:49:53Z “And some of the mercenary bumpkins and boobies ’round here have taken to going to church for what they can get out of the two old ladies. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z She remained on the threshold, breathing hard, and staring shyly, while she waited for an answer—a bouncing, apple-cheeked, country bumpkin of a girl, who had accepted very modest wages for this her first place. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z But Walker was no country bumpkin, to be overawed and silenced by a man of superior social status. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z What a madness it would be that should lead me to shave the soaped beards of country bumpkins! Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z We must also bear in mind that the dialect counts for much in a comic scene, as we can easily perceive by changing a Yorkshire bumpkin's language in a comedy into London English. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z We were country bumpkins, he of the haute politique, and he had come from Versailles or from Paris to drill us! The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z But the fellow who tied me up was a bumpkin, who made a bungle of the job. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z For the latter, reaching for a row of golden pippins stowed on his oil shelf, contributed by some bumpkin admirer down the line, seized the biggest and poised it for a fling. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Acting to perfection a simple country bumpkin, Zeph pulled the wool completely over the eyes of the fellow. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z She even offered to go with him on his yacht, and be civil to those horrible bumpkins in uniform, if he would sail forthwith to Letterkenny and discover something tangible. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The Seigneurie of Touraine would one and all be smirched with the disgrace, if members of their order were handed over without a struggle to the vengeance of bucolic bumpkins. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Thirty years ago, mainland people were 'achan' - they were thought to be country bumpkins. Surge in anti-China sentiment in Hong Kong 2012-02-08T10:28:27Z “The statue of Ike as a Kansas farmer-boy mocks the president as cornpone in chief, the supreme allied bumpkin,” said the nonprofit National Civic Art Society, which focuses on architecture and urban design. Eisenhower Family Raises Objections to Planned Memorial 2012-02-07T01:30:23Z His words and stolid bumpkin air threw me into a frenzy of rage. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z On page 252, an exclamation point was added after "That bumpkin". A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z As their names suggest, Citt and Bumpkin represent a sophisticated London citizen and a naive country bumpkin. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z It was an ill-mannered bumpkin wind from out of town with a rural sense of humor. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z We're ignorant country bumpkins, Lieutenant, riding into the city in a chugging jalopy. The Lonely Ones 2011-12-16T03:00:11.443Z After a long and ridiculous soliloquy, Tartaglia caught sight of two country bumpkins passing by, ordered the corpses to be decently buried, and bade the fellows carry them away. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z “Yet I didn’t think country bumpkins were much in your line.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z While the bumpkin stood rooted to the spot, dazed by the loss of his money, a mechanic approached the table, and, after looking on for some time, observed: "I like biribi better." San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z He had loved her and longed to tell her his secret secretly, and had merely apprised her that he was a blundering bumpkin. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Only the typical, the professional, politician jibed and jeered at the country bumpkins who thought to touch his long-established power and his State-filled pocket. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Here again is my coachman being interviewed by some country bumpkins:—“Who be your master, matie?” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z “Then ‘why’ and ‘when’ did this country bumpkin say she hated me!” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Yea verily, for the lightsome butterfly may flit to rest upon the crimson carnation, but I, clumsy bumpkin that I am, how can I rest myself without tarnishing the living whiteness that is you? The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z They are not country bumpkins, and they had sharp people around them on the financial side.” Suit Throws Open Window Into Mets Owners? Holdings and History 2011-09-23T00:50:12Z Would you hold our meeting in sight from the window of the hut, where you have just lodged a pair of your busy meddlers—your bumpkin cronies in the way of trade? Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Our Gabriel was the simplest bumpkin ever seen or heard off the London stage. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The notion of Kerley — a “straight country bumpkin,” as Glasgow called him — playing with the Jets has spawned jokes among some former coaches, who wonder what he is doing in New York. A Jets Rookie Borne From the Roads of Hutto, Tex. 2011-09-06T19:49:05Z Did you grow out of the ground, and have you roots like the rest of them, bumpkin?” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Were she to marry one of the many country bumpkins who flocked around her, it would be affluence to what he could have offered her. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z All classes hobnobbing together higgledy-piggledy; archbishops with acrobats; benchers with bumpkins; counts with candlestickmakers; dukes with druggists; and so on through the entire alphabet. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z Why should they be ignored, and the stage lowered to the level of the country bumpkin, the imbecile youth of the day, and his female friends? Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z I retreated in perfect disgust with these precocious vagabonds, not, however, before I was saluted with another peal of laughter, accompanied by the epithets—'greenhorn,' 'young 'un,' 'bumpkin,' &c. &c. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z That two country bumpkins, as he was pleased to call them, would be able to float a company had not occurred to him. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z I do begrudge her to any of these country bumpkins, who come in for their mug of ale and their chaff. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z The next moment a titter ran through the crowd as a bumpkin in a rear seat called out: “The dude’s eyes ain’t mates!” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Here is a phrenologist, with a large figure of a human head mapped into regions, inviting Chinese bumpkins to submit to him their bumps. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z "What tricks can there be to my prejudice in any town or city in the world, thou bumpkin?" said Don Quixote. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Happy in my ignorance, young bumpkin that I was, I babbled on, and she listened and answered as simply as any rustic damsel. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The little fat bumpkin gave but one spring from the chaise and ran to embrace his old companion. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z "What does the bumpkin mean, Gibbs?" asked Algernon, impatiently tapping with his fingers on the desk before him. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z But I fear they are a strange set of provincial bumpkins. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z I am more of a country bumpkin than my uncle. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z You whom I have sheltered and fed, lumpish mooncalf, unlettered bumpkin! The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Harry was dressed in the homespun of the country, and had all the appearance of a country bumpkin. The Courier of the Ozarks 2011-02-09T03:00:43.267Z And it is too bad, when one has worked so conscientiously as you have, to be worried by blundering bumpkins. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z In the booth, he effectively played the role of country bumpkin or class clown. The Fifth Down: Remembering Don Meredith as a Football Player 2010-12-07T11:04:00Z He also appeared on “Dynasty,” “Hart to Hart” and “The Dukes of Hazzard,” on which he played the snobby British cousin to the country bumpkin Duke brothers. Simon MacCorkindale, Dashing British Actor, Dies at 58 2010-10-16T03:27:00Z Regardless of his image among detractors as a cowboy bumpkin, Perry remains a wily campaigner and an excellent retail politician, a sharp contrast with the charisma-challenged White. The most important race you don't know about -- yet 2010-09-05T15:01:00Z We've always told them no, and sometimes they've walked away and said, 'You guys are country bumpkins, you just don't get it.' Wall Street Rethinks the Hard Sell for Exotic Financial Products 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z In the 1990s, for instance, he fought a bumpkin character called "Billionaire Ted" in the ring, and at times the family's real-life storylines have turned distinctly surreal. The Smackdown Candidate 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z Beverly Edwards, who has been working at the Clean Rite for five years, said use the country bumpkin one, it reminded her of Gomer Pyle. 2010-01-16T05:33:00Z Mike Pettine, who followed Ryan from Baltimore and became defensive coordinator, likes to call him the country bumpkin from Oklahoma, the unshaven everyman dressed in sweats, pizza grease stains on his shirt. 2010-01-24T07:36:00Z You talk," she declared, "either like George Alexander on the stage, or like a country bumpkin! The Hillman He dropped his blade and lifted it in salute, not like a bumpkin but with the finished grace of familiarity—the sweeping confidence of perfect ease. The Tempering In my ignorance I fancied he was a pretentious sort of bumpkin, who talked of things a little out of his reach,—such as yachting,—steeple-chasing, and the like. Tony Butler All her sorrows and heartbreak will be made a penny mouthful for country bumpkins and scandalous gammers to ‘Oh!’ and ‘Ah!’ over. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story It is as our young mistress has said," muttered Macdonald, "some bumpkin, too shy to be caught, and not worth the catching. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Hansei was described as an awkward bumpkin, unable to use his hands or feet, and obliged to call the schoolmaster to his assistance whenever he found it necessary to count the smallest sum of money. On the Heights A Novel Naturally, the gentlemen find this very democratic experience more trying than do the peasants and the bumpkins. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 I stopped and stared at her, with my mouth open, like a bumpkin gazing at an army passing. With Ring of Shield I have heard Her Majesty’s proclamation against vice and immorality read at quarter-sessions by men in whose reading it became a farce which the most ignorant bumpkin in court could relish. The Night Side of London Even the village schoolteacher and rural physician were seen as unsophisticated country bumpkins, although they had the same education as their city counterparts. Area Handbook for Bulgaria We see that a bumpkin of a Post Office messenger was tried the other day at the assizes for making away with letters. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The question was asked in derision of the "country bumpkin." Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 For a breathing space we stood there, she as slender and youthful as a school-girl; I as awkward and disheveled as a bumpkin, with my head hanging shamefacedly—awaiting sentence. The Portal of Dreams On hearing these last words, the rustic bumpkins who had enlisted exposed their flowing locks, and with their tattered hats gave three cheers to "the king—God bless him." Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment What do you take us for, you bumpkin? Pretty Michal No! he leaves that to the cowed bumpkin of the south. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The artist possibly had this quotation in his mind when he designed the following:—The deponent is a country bumpkin, to whom an official tenders the Testament, at the same time extending his disengaged palm. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Such recollections are also a treasure for life; and even if the sun- dried country bumpkins didn't understand it, jolly it had been all the same. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 He would not care, perhaps, for county business or for the quarter sessions; he would have too much contempt for the country bumpkins to be popular with the farmers or wield political influence. A Country Gentleman and his Family "Tarbox" was probably a nickname for a bumpkin, or guardian of the tarbox, in which was kept the tar composition used for anointing sheep. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc There, go to sleep, bumpkin, and think yourself lucky you got off so well.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Only three months married, and to find my husband an obstinate, vindictive, strait-laced country bumpkin! The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly “Say, bumpkin, how did ye get away from your ma’s apron-string?” said the other. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance The study was a commodious room, with a line of chairs against the further wall, which the parish mostly took when the bumpkins had anything to say to the parson. A Country Gentleman and his Family Why should you play to rustic bumpkins, when the world of fashion would gladly receive you? The Strollers “There, now you know, bumpkin,” said Sam, with a sneering laugh. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Well, not a bumpkin perhaps, after all, but almost as bad as that! The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The rabble of undisciplined country bumpkins must be driven from their position, or the troops of England would be forever disgraced. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance When at length he saw me, the glory flowed suddenly off his legs; he subsided into a country bumpkin, and beat a hasty retreat indoors. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland If you decide to fit the Braine steering gear, a spur or bumpkin, as it is termed, must be fitted to take the rubber centering line. Boys' Book of Model Boats “Well, suppose I go down to that country bumpkin’s place?” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam He recalled the first arrival of honest but blundering Zeph Dallas at Stanley Junction, a raw country bumpkin. Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer “The bumpkin replied if I hadn’t any pig-tail, a bit of plug would do just as well for a chaw.” Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance That I am surprised only proves, I suppose, what a bumpkin I am, thought Simon, annoyed at himself and disgusted with de Verceuil. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The small boom that projects over the stern of a yawl is called the bumpkin. Boys' Book of Model Boats "Grinning mugs would be nearer the mark, Mater," said Clarence; "never saw such a chuckle-headed lot of bumpkins in my life!" In Brief Authority I liked the looks of him—a cut above the usual village bumpkin—something free and kind about his face. Tatterdemalion Then the deliverance from the devil would do admirably; the bumpkins would swallow that as easily as the devil swallowed St. Margaret. Highways and Byways in Surrey Inside half an hour some bumpkin dropped an eight-ounce 93 bottle of sulphuretted hydrogen. The Dominant Dollar The average intelligence of what may be called the working class Malay is almost as far superior to that, say, of the British country bumpkin as are his manners. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo The bumpkins all stared, and Nancy began to awake and find out that a sailor knew how to cut a caper. A Sailor of King George Although she did not show it, she must have thought him a bumpkin, an oaf, an underbred cur. 'Me--Smith' One recently alighted in a field and a country bumpkin came over with the crowd to see the fun. The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia He would not smoke this level-eyed girl out of the schoolhouse, nor sprinkle the floor with cayenne, as was the usual proceeding of the country bumpkin who 89 failed to admire his teacher. The Wind Before the Dawn "My name be Jack as well as thine," replied the honest-hearted bumpkin. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 Do you think I carry proofs of my identity for every country bumpkin to read? A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 It is exactly calculated to hit the notions of a vulgar, ignorant, lazy, greedy, and unprincipled bumpkin. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages They gathered about her, prying and bobbing and jostling and chirping, staring at her like a lot of bumpkins when she leaped into the half-finished cup and molded her building material with her ruddy bosom. Our Bird Comrades Then I thought of the rudder and the iron bumpkin on it that the rudder-chains fastened to, and swam with all my strength under the quarter as it came along. The Grain Ship Another bumpkin with his son once ran after the bishop’s horse. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The same thing recurred in the policy of the feudal ages; the bumpkins, the vassals, were compelled to follow the standard, but their service was limited to a certain number of weeks. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Of course those bumpkins down in Huntersville took their time about telephoning it up. Black Oxen This fruit so large, on vine so small," Surveying once, exclaim'd a bumpkin— "What could He mean who made us all? A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine Had one of them looked at him, he would merely have said, mentally, "Some country bumpkin come in to see the sights of town and be buncoed." The Uncalled A Novel Mrs. Bryce made her feel a clumsy fool, a sort of country bumpkin. The Cricket I tried to convince myself that he was more worthy than I. I told myself that I was a country bumpkin, an ignorant clown, and unworthy to aspire to a maiden like Ruth Morton. Roger Trewinion “Well, I wouldn’t touch it for sixpence,” said Fred; “but I ain’t afraid, only I don’t want to be bitten again by any of your nasty country bumpkin things, else I’d touch it fast enough.” Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home "The devil take thee for a bumpkin," said Don Quixote; "thou sayest ever and anon such apt things that one would almost think thee a scholar." Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote These men were all to be colleagues of the bumpkin at the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, but that lay in the misty future. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Their means of defence had to be reserved till the very last instant, they could not afford to simply destroy the first stupid bumpkin who might happen to come in their way. The Day of Wrath Cheap jokes go with cheap people; but when you are with those of subtle insight, who make close mental distinctions, you should muzzle your mood, if perchance you are a bumpkin. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers They evidently observed that he was a stranger to the village, and of quite a different style from that of the country bumpkins and rural exquisites they were accustomed to meeting. Hooking Watermelons 1898 I vow to Heaven, Don Lubberly, saucy bumpkin, if you do not instantly get out of my sight, I will break your head with this chair! Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote At school he carved his desk, made faces at the girls, and kept the place in a turmoil generally: doing the wrong thing, just like many another bumpkin. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The dreamer in his mountain eyrie felt his heart warm with a sort of fatherly pity over these bumpkin raptures. Despair's Last Journey He was no crude, uneducated country bumpkin, despite his odd ways and peculiar dress. Mary Louise in the Country Now there isn't one of them country bumpkins, miss, as would know whether you had an accent or not. Molly Bawn Of course they will stone you, as village bumpkins run out and stone an odd stray bird that they have never seen before; and the more beautiful the plumage looks, the harder rain the stones. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida I did, indeed, Archie, right there in the undertaker's joint, with a lot of bumpkins staring! Blacksheep! Blacksheep! "About the greenest bumpkin I've seen for an age," thought the little man, as he stood and looked at Jack. Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way “You are amongst gentlemen here, and we don’t allow new greenhorns or country bumpkins to come and insult us.” Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea “Go home, bumpkins!” he shouted, “or we’ll spit you all together like larks.” The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First If the bird were a sparrow the bumpkins would let it be. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida “Of course not, bumpkin,” said Archy impatiently, as the men burst into a guffaw, and then looked horribly serious as if they had not smiled. Cutlass and Cudgel I don't refer to the bumpkins with whom you played when a boy, and who, now that you have outgrown them, look enviously askance at you. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 In either case, its proper classical English sense is given by Johnson as "a mean, awkward fellow; a bumpkin, a clown." Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds I am convinced that they look upon us as country bumpkins, and it’s most important to put them in their proper position at once, so that we may start fair. The Fortunes of the Farrells I’m not favourably impressed with that doctor; an officious bumpkin, he seems to me. Roger Ingleton, Minor He had thought the boy a dull, stupid-looking bumpkin, and he was finding out how observing he had been. Cutlass and Cudgel With time I became hardened, I no longer heeded anything; I was an ignoramus, a camel, a bumpkin, an idiot, a loggerhead—I was everything! Brazilian Tales Bentley Upham was a year ahead and had a good standing, but he felt a little jealous of the young country fellow—"bumpkin" he would have liked to call him, but he was not that. A Little Girl in Old Salem This time I had gone in heels and all, and now came up in as fine a confusion as any bashful bumpkin ever displayed before his lady. Lords of the North His manner towards me was that of a man of the world who is kindly disposed towards a country bumpkin. Dross The same may be seen at our own West Point, where the transformation of many a country bumpkin, into an officer and a gentleman, in four years is almost unbelievable. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View If he was "putting on," as Seth would term it, then this farm hand must be a pretty clever actor for a crude country bumpkin, Paul thought. Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps We procured the aid of a clownish bumpkin to carry our carpet bag, and left Warminster on foot. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Fancy! a hundred florins a month for teaching a lingo only spoken by bumpkins. The Poor Plutocrats Indeed, I think he rather despised me for a thick-headed country bumpkin. Dross Stop your chatter, bumpkin, and take this copper for your trouble. A Chinese Wonder Book "Perhaps we can get the truth out of this bumpkin, if we take the lash to him." My Lady of Doubt Curiosity as to the place was at its utmost stretch, but our ignorant bumpkin could tell nothing about it. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath This was not reached in Ben Jonson's time, but fools and their artifices are by him discarded for something more natural, for country bumpkins and servants, ludicrous in their stupidity, knavery and drunkenness. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour It was all the sublime effrontery and conceit—or naturalness, if you please—of a country bumpkin who did not know his place. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters She was quite a small vessel, but her three oars, her two masts, her bowsprit, and her bumpkin, had all been made hollow. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 You bumpkins! who stare at your brother conveyed, Behold what respect to a cloddy is paid! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation When she is fourteen, she will go out into the fields, and in three years she will be an ignorant country bumpkin. On The Art of Reading And the veriest bumpkin knows the force of the adage about one's shaking the tree, for another to gather up the fruit. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy The tufted fair one heard the remark, and called out spitefully from a distance: "If certain people were not ignorant country bumpkins, they would be able to tell a good story themselves." Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men The fellow jeered and named him bumpkin, but the rest said nothing, and looked on him as they passed, and two at the end doffed their caps. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary No kind there was of human pumpkin But at its bumps it had a bumpkin; Down to the very lowest gullion, And oiliest skull of oily scullion. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood A picnic once in a while—sleigh-ride in winter—sewing-bees—dance at—at Abbie's; and all in the company of a set of country bumpkins, like Bill Reynolds, and awkward farmers' daughters! Bressant The weather grew worse and worse; the boat, under a close-reefed mizen on the bumpkin stepped as a foremast, was steered with an oar by the second master. Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 I could discover nothing but what was disagreeable in the horrid bumpkin, and thought such an instance of the blindness of parental partiality was hardly credible. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Is Costard the bumpkin the best actor in the Mask of the Worthies? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies "That malapert bumpkin will be no friend either to me or to your majesty," he said. St George's Cross He even had the satisfaction of seeing Phrony treat coldly and send away one or two country bumpkins who rode up in all the bravery of long broad-cloth coats and kid gloves. Gordon Keith Alexander has been dead upwards of two too thousand years, but the very English bumpkins sometimes christen their boys by the name of Alexander—can there be a greater evidence of his greatness? The Pocket George Borrow He was shy; he was impudent; he was awkward; he was conceited;—altogether a most intolerable bumpkin. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh He was large and strong and fat and good-natured, and had a full-moon face and red cheeks that made him look like a country bumpkin. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen This fruit so large, on vine so small," Surveying once, exclaim'd a bumpkin— "What could He mean who made us all? The Talking Beasts Staring at him for an instant, the spirit cut him dead; murmuring to itself, 'Ah, some terrestrial bumpkin, I fancy,' and passed on with its celestial nose in the highly rarified air. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I And you should have heard how artfully he contrived to lead her back to the f�tes of Namur; asking, as with the curiosity of a bumpkin, the whole details of the royal entertainments! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 He meets with continual discouragements; and finds great difficulty in getting the country bumpkins to play their parts tolerably. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Fine company, fine company for a country bumpkin to keep! Tom Tufton's Travels Every bumpkin had his favourite solo, and oh! the murder, the profanation! The Parish Clerk Probably tourists' visits are not few and far between: but anyhow, even the most unsuspicious bumpkin of a lover, would be inclined to ask a few questions about this finery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Associated words: patristic, patristics, patrology, patrist. churchly, a. ecclesiastical. church officer. vestryman, warden, presbyter, trustee. churl, n. rustic, hind, bumpkin, lout, boor. churlish, a. boorish, rude, morose, unamiable. chyle, n. Putnam's Word Book It creates a horde of sots and idlers, makes gapers and gazers and newsmongers of the common people, and knowing jockeys of the country bumpkins. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists He was no longer laughed at as a country bumpkin. Tom Tufton's Travels She had a horror of the country folk since her encounter with the two bumpkins upon the Sunday. The Firm of Girdlestone Don't stop a little bumpkin buster what's got business in both hands. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" To the country bumpkin the city is an Eldorado and a lordly pleasure-house. William of Germany Buried," she went on bitterly, "among a lot of country bumpkins! The Lady of Big Shanty So the country bumpkin has found a mistress already! Tom Tufton's Travels But I have witnessed the signal failure of such an appeal to the honor of the bumpkins of a country school. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 Trunnell passed a line over the main-brace bumpkin, and held the tossing craft away from the ship's side until a bridle could be bent and the ladies hoisted aboard. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" Little more than a year ago he would hardly have opened his mouth, and would have worn the true bumpkin look of contemptuous sheepishness. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Great is the joy accordingly, especially among the bumpkins, who are now sure of an abundant harvest. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul Those monastery celibates, who are well equipped to bandy with their equals, are mere braying bumpkins when they have to do with embroidered waistcoats and amorous hearts. Mistress Penwick The bumpkins had stolen away, and, in some safe, quiet nook, were snugly enjoying their triumph, and doubtless the deceitful fair ones were by this time at their sides, sharing their mirth and exultation. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest She was not ordinary, as could be sensed by even an ignorant bumpkin like me. Vandemark's Folly Vague instinct still entered a feeble protest, but reason and common sense and a certain undetermined feeling of what was due to himself socially—poor country bumpkin!—fought a hard battle too. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Again, a Bardney bumpkin told how a witch in his neighbourhood could take all sorts of shapes. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul So far the Duke had kept everything from his Majesty and must also keep these "bumpkins" from tormenting him with importunities of so rustic a nature as "western lands." Mistress Penwick Still less did he dream that the hand to cut the thread which held it was that of the stupid bumpkin whose warning he had despised. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life She was constantly smiling, as if bent on dazzling the bumpkins, who were gaping at her from a distance, with the pearly flash of her teeth. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Such a beau of beaux, no doubt he was annoyed that an insignificant little country bumpkin should not be flattered by his patronage, or probably he thought me rude or ill-humoured. My Brilliant Career A tawdry pageant by a lot of clumsy country bumpkins at Whitsuntide or Pentecost, or a silly school-boy masque at Christmas, with the master scolding like a heathen Turk. Master Skylark Who dreamed what subtle strains our bumpkin wrought? Theocritus, translated into English Verse His man, George— a shrewd fellow, by the way, for one of these bumpkins—came with a letter asking me to go up to the Castle, so I shall get round there to lunch. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life No, when she loved, she loved in the open, with the sublime immodesty of the masterpiece that scandalizes bumpkins with its naked beauty! The Torrent Entre Naranjos What should drop out of it, one day, but a small heart-shaped paper, containing a lock of that straight, coarse, brown hair which sets off the sharp faces of so many thin-flanked, large-handed bumpkins? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 We have seen many a city bumpkin start for a White-Mountain walk in the thinnest of cotton foot-coverings, but we never knew one to try them a second time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Like his English representative, the Indian village bumpkin has a natural aversion to town life. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" Instead, however, of yielding directly to the strong impulse, the honest shaper of cloth chose to conduct his advance in a manner that should afford to the bumpkin a striking proof of his boasted sagacity. The Red Rover Rafael blushed, feeling he had made a false step in volunteering his name with the pompousness he would have used toward some bumpkin of the region. The Torrent Entre Naranjos "It is a mill," said an attorney, to quiz the bumpkin. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 The bumpkin who is a bumpkin at thirty must remain a bumpkin to threescore and ten. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 As for mine, exercised on said bumpkin, let me alone for that part of the small affair; but none of your compulsion, if you love me. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Homespun, having thus disposed of his admiring companion, waited, with much elevation of mien, until the gaping bumpkin had left the wharf, before he again turned his look on the stranger in green. The Red Rover Very well—there we find ourselves alive and kicking, forty couple footing it on the green, and choosing, according to our tastes, reels, jigs, minuets, or bumpkins. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 Of course it was not long before shrewd people began to see that this fine humor, with its home-thrusts, was not in reality written by a country bumpkin. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans She remembered Ken's prophecy--"you'll come home with a melodeon"--and turned away, her cheeks all the pinker when she found the frankly interested eyes of several bumpkins fixed upon her. The Happy Venture A waistcoat of glaring scarlet will be esteemed by a country bumpkin a garment every way preferable to one of aspect more subdued. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 One might as well inquire of a lodging-house slavey the way to make beds as expect a country bumpkin to know the road to the next village. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow "What a bumpkin he is for a Captain in the army," old Osborne thought. Vanity Fair Even the most mischievous of the fairies would not tease him, although he did not belong to their set at all, but was quite a little country bumpkin. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women I don't believe a bumpkin like you could manage all that. The Innocence of Father Brown But his mind soon strayed from the pair of bumpkins and went off to other and more pressing matters. Captivating Mary Carstairs "All country bumpkins who affect outrageous clothes and delight in muddy boots?" inquired his sister. The Brown Mask "Oh! 'tis nothing but the wit of some bumpkin, who thinks to frighten two of the Virginians by an artifice of this kind," said the trooper, placing the billet in his pocket. The Spy I saw this even in our Hampshire bumpkins. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. "Kick the bumpkin into the ditch, Ben," the man on horseback advised. The Highwayman He just makes His masters look ridiculous, when his pomp's Butchered to make a bumpkin's holiday. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Yet our work was made easier to us by the assurance that it was not thrown away, for at every gathering our bumpkins stood more erect, and handled their weapons more deftly. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Photograph his head and come upon it suddenly in a collection of others, and you would have said: "A big country bumpkin who ploughs all day and milks the cows at night." The Under Dog But then, again, I hate the Joskins, a name for Hertfordshire bumpkins. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 It's not as if you was a bumpkin to teach! There & Back I was, I confess, alarmed; but Vassily Fomitch stepped forward with perfect composure, and saying in a stern voice, 'Now then, country bumpkin,' shook his handkerchief at him. A Desperate Character and Other Stories These same bumpkins have stood by him when nobler friends have held aloof. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Let dowdies simper, and let bumpkins stare, 240 The strolling pageant hero treads in air: Pleased, for his hour he to mankind gives law, And snores the next out on a truss of straw. Poetical Works What would she, what could she, think, but that I was the same punch-drinking, rowing, quarrelling bumpkin as those whom I had so lately been carefully endeavoring to separate myself from? Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 Not any more of a bumpkin than I or any of the rest of us here. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire It was quite dark, and I fancy that the fellow thought that I was a bumpkin, for we did not exchange five words. The Doings of Raffles Haw Now, cried the devil, thou talkest like an honest fellow, bumpkin. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 In such a sphere, and under such circumstances, Isaac Newton and Lord Bacon would be sea-clowns and bumpkins; and Napoleon Bonaparte be cuffed and kicked without remorse. Redburn. His First Voyage Is it not pretty to see those very fine gentlemen imitating bumpkins at a fair, and grinning their best for a gold ring! Devereux — Complete Is it not pretty to see those very fine gentlemen imitating bumpkins at a fair, and grinning their best /for a gold ring/! Devereux — Volume 02 "Now you shall see my little bumpkin!" said he, and brought in a square-built child, who with fat, red cheeks, and round arms, stared around him. O. T. a Danish Romance But Israel Goodrich and Ezra also wore their hair in this manner, while shoes and clean shaved faces were occasional indulgences with every bumpkin who stood around. The Duke of Stockbridge So they bombarded the poor bumpkin with "wordy pyrotechnics," at which the stranger bewilderingly added his laugh and finally was emboldened to ask what would be the upshot of "this here comet business?" The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Glorious, of course: yet a trifle dull, all the same; there would be more fun shooting these bumpkins, if only they could summon heart to put up a bit of a fight in return. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 To say the truth, the compliment was so expressed, that the lady might easily appropriate the greater share of it, for Thorncliff seemed an arrant country bumpkin, awkward, shy, and somewhat sulky withal. Rob Roy — Volume 01 The conversation then languished, and the Shelley-voiced young man turned elsewhere for sympathy, with a shrug at your country bumpkins who know nothing later than Rossetti. Young Lives He could not even take any pleasure in looking at her, because he was so angry to see the coarse stares of admiration which the bumpkins around fixed on her. The Duke of Stockbridge To take the conceit out of the upstart who had leaped from the flatboat deck to behind the counter at the store--the acme of a bumpkin's ambition--they selected their bully. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form But all ryots are not alike, and when the putwarrie gets hold of some unwary and ignorant bumpkin whom he can plunder, he does plunder him systematically. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter And what did you know, you bumpkin! before you came on board this Andrew Miller? White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War But then, again, I hate the joskins, a name for Hertfordshire bumpkins. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb "Did you see that ardent bumpkin embracing his sweetheart?" The Century Vocabulary Builder "Our strapping cavaliers will make short work of your gawky bumpkins;" he remarked to Jack as the recruits loitered about the wide, shaded streets, waiting to be forwarded to the rendezvous. The Iron Game A Tale of the War "Is it not a strange thing, Halliday," he said to his comrade, "to see a set of bumpkins sit carousing here this whole evening, without having drank the king's health?" Old Mortality, Volume 1. The two youths he had looked upon as rather awkward country bumpkins, judging as he did from their tanned faces and broad shoulders, were evidently not to be trifled with. The Boy Aviators in Africa A girl also disappeared; a buxom lass with yellow hair and blue eyes, about whom half the country bumpkins had gone nearly wild.' The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp Or take again, as utterly unlike either of these, that burlesque Homeric battle in the churchyard, where the "sweetly-winding Stour" stands for "reedy Simois," and the bumpkins round for Greeks and Trojans! Fielding A few dogs ran back to me, when, as ill-luck would have it, the young stag came over to our country bumpkin. The Bores Then to go and lose his way like a country bumpkin! and he gnawed his lips with vexation. Barriers Burned Away Look at the difference in appearance between a country bumpkin and a soldier! Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children He was short of stature, smooth-faced and looked like a good-natured country bumpkin in his peasant garb, all decorated with dust. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists I have breeding and culture—everything—and you're just a country bumpkin. Samuel the Seeker The ordinary operations of extracting a tooth or breathing a vein when a bumpkin presented himself as a patient, he speedily mastered. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia And to think that some bumpkin will enjoy lips fit for a duke. Janice Meredith She took me for some country bumpkin, with this confounded saddle, and was laughing at me. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel But how far was he a mere bumpkin? Jacob's Room When poor Edmund Kean was acting in barns to country bumpkins, and barely rinding bread for his wife and child, he was just as great a genius as when he was crowding Drury Lane. The Recreations of a Country Parson "Out of my way, bumpkin!" he retorted, and, brushing one aside, made after her. The Broad Highway “Don’t make outcry ’gainst your star when it has sent ye a lover in the nick of time, ready to save ye from the bumpkin.” Janice Meredith Surprise had as effectually lured him away as if he had been a country bumpkin. A Rock in the Baltic But she suspected him of being a mere bumpkin. Jacob's Room Captain One shouldn't be surprised by rudeness in a country bumpkin who was nourished without politeness. The McNaughtens It was clear they took me for a country bumpkin instead of a great politician, and were inclined to make much of my excess of simplicity. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter There, that was better; he felt less of a bumpkin. Born in Exile Nothing was present to him but a sense of gawkish confusion, following on a wild impulse which both ashamed and alarmed him, he stood in a bumpkin attitude, biting his lips. Will Warburton "Truth at last, and out of the lips of a red-haired bumpkin," muttered the King, also staring at the unconscious Cromwell, who was engaged on his writing and either feigned deafness or did not hear. The Lady of Blossholme And she had her nose buried in one of Mis' Peavey's pink peonys, a-blushing as pretty as you please over it at that country bumpkin of mine with all his fine manners. The Road to Providence Now, you've no more idea how to behave than a country bumpkin. The Getting of Wisdom Have they stung you, then, already, young bumpkin from the countryside, for such I write you down? The Virgin of the Sun He was keenly conscious of his citizenship, wished to live with his city on terms mutually honourable and resented any affront put upon him by those whom he called country bumpkins. Dubliners The two gentlemen were big Yorkshiremen, heavy-browed, and their native shrewdness packed far away behind a bumpkin stolidity and surliness that barely allowed them to show respect to the King. The Caged Lion Let him kiss your hand, child, he ain't nothing but a country bumpkin that can't talk complimentary to save his life. The Road to Providence Well! let them go—for a mean "lowdown" pair of country bumpkins:—HE wanted no favors from them! Tales of Trail and Town "The man is not a bumpkin; he is a scholar and a poet!" said the lady. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald It is easy to see you are nothing but a country bumpkin, and make a nosegay of every plant. Stories from the Pentamerone For my part, I should have taken it as far less an insult to be styled "fellow," "clown," or "bumpkin." The Blithedale Romance The scene in which the bumpkin squire rooks the accomplished Fathom at hazard, in Paris, is prettily conceived, and Smollett’s indignation at the British system of pews in church is edifying. Adventures Among Books He assumed a more careless air, trying to look as like a country bumpkin in love as he could. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel Camusot looked at his wife as a country bumpkin looks at a conjurer. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life I arrive here and everybody, on seeing me, says to himself, 'Here's a curious bumpkin, but not a bad fellow.' The Mystery of Orcival The lark is but a bumpkin fowl, He sleeps in his nest till morn; But my blessing upon the jolly owl, That all night blows his horn. Kenilworth But the young gallant introduced to-night into the world she lived in was no bumpkin, and was a dandy of the town. A Lady of Quality How now, I reflect, what sort of bumpkin is this, and perhaps I say to him cruelly: "Boy, you are uncommonly like your mother." The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens Why, that is the young bumpkin I came in with this morning. A Master's Degree The mounted men were regular country bumpkins, with green sprays in their hats, like the rest of our men; but their horses were pretty good, much better than most of those we had. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Even so, they seemed a raw lot of clumsy bumpkins as they marched up. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger |
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