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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.
But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger's posterior.
Thebold had been chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.
Seeing that you go from town to town, I ween you can outdo a poor country yokel at tidings.
This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.
In his own undergraduate days the yokel and the mob were outside the pale of the gownsman's interests.

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