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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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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.
This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.
Over these I rejoiced like a yokel with a pocketful of butterscotch and peanuts.
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
It is not the forelock-tugging yokel that so many members seem to want to think is still a farm worker.
Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers.

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