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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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Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word.
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.
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.
Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel.
It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him.

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