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What is a yokel?

What is a yokel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) An unsophisticated person.
  2. A person of rural background.
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Over these I rejoiced like a yokel with a pocketful of butterscotch and peanuts.
Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers.
Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word.
Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel.
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
I must have looked like a real country yokel, certainly I felt one, I felt the heat rising and my cheeks were burning with embarrassment.

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