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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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Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel.
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.
Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word.
It is not the forelock-tugging yokel that so many members seem to want to think is still a farm worker.
It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him.
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.

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