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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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In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.
Thebold had been chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.
Over these I rejoiced like a yokel with a pocketful of butterscotch and peanuts.
Seeing that you go from town to town, I ween you can outdo a poor country yokel at tidings.
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.

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