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• n  a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

• The platoon we follow from the first day of enlistment to battlefield apotheosis contains many familiar types--supermacho drill sergeant, dopey yokel and, at its center, Johnny .
• There follows an outline of the life history of a man who, once a country yokel, has risen to be Prime Minister of Britain.
• Here, with rambunctious energy, Giannini assumes roles in eight separate vignettes, playing everything from a lawyer hung up on dowagers to a simple, wistful yokel who .

• rube
• hick
• yahoo
• hayseed
• bumpkin
• chawbacon

News & Articles

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• Stamford’s Local Yokel Media raises $2.15M
  Local Yokel Media drew $2.15 million from investors, including the state’s technology investment and economic development arms, to refine the Stamford firm’s digital ad platform, authorities say.
  June 18, 2013 - Hartford Business Journal

Quotes

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• Lee T. Todd, Jr. in UK News
  I applaud Dr. Yokel and his research team for earning such a prestigious award,said UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. "It is an honor that the EPA STAR program selected UK for the largest single grant it has ever awarded for nanotechnology...
• John Noakes in Independent
  John Noakes called her awful: "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her."
• Des O Connor in BBC News
  Chat show host Des O'Connor commented: "City toff, country yokel - all his characters were brilliantly observed and so believable. He was a kind, warm and friendly man and, most of all, a gentleman."