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. |