How To Use Bumpkin In A Sentence
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Look, you think I'm some kind of bumpkin fool, don't you?
Lucifer's Hammer
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Whether you're a city dweller or a country bumpkin like myself, it seems that we all take pleasure in what nature holds for us.
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bumpkinly country boys
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Ministers think only a few country bumpkins are going to be affected, but what am I supposed to do?
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And if the mainstream media see tea partiers as bumpkins and racists, isn't this just more bad faith — characterizing people as ignorant or evil so as to dismiss them?
A Referendum on the Redeemer
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The policeman rubbed down the country bumpkin, but found nothing suspicious.
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And that makes it more than serviceable for the normal run of fanatical ideologues, confirmed partisans and weak-minded bumpkins to make use of endlessly.
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Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
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Her comedy, one of the most-produced new plays in North America, has a stage-struck bumpkin named Will Shakespeare claiming credit for the scribblings of noblemen.
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A lourdeau, my dear brother, is as we might say a bumpkin, a clown, a clodpole: a fellow without grace, lightness, quickness; any gift of pleasing, any natural brilliancy: such a one as you shall see, when you desire, by looking in the mirror.
Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757
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A country bumpkin who had stolen a bag of potatoes, perhaps, soon learned the theory of picking pockets and the art of garotting in these places, and being unequal to the former he would adopt the latter as a means of earning a livelihood.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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Privately he thought Tom Hendry was a bit of a country bumpkin.
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Few urbanites understand the panic the city brings on in country bumpkins.
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And none of the priests actually seems to be a dirty rotten scoundrel - most of them seem to be more bumpkinish rather than churlish.
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The British then used it in derisive reference to the “undisciplined” and “licentious” bumpkins of New England.
A Renegade History of the United States
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While most Aussie blokes passing through the US think a liberal smattering of “crikey”, “strewth” and “onya” is a short cut to getting a leg over a flighty divorcee, or becoming the most popular guy in a bar full of strangers, most Americans are familiar enough with Australians to wonder why it is we feel compelled to play up our bumpkinish image in the company of foreigners.
Cheeseburger Gothic » JB’s travel tips.
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Her criticizers dismiss her as a country bumpkin with rough features only Westerners could appreciate.
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Her "cutesy" manner and country-bumpkin expressions are a reflection of her thought process and her inability to communicate as an educated adult.
McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
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Despite his slightly bumpkinish exterior, Li is actually a fearsome fighter with his Staff.
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And the implication is, you know, we're kind of bumpkins," Mr. Pawlenty said.
NYT > Home Page
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And Beatrice and Virgil deserves to be severely reviled because this book, which should not have even been permitted even the fourth-class method of self-publication, earned its bumpkin author a six figure sum through indolence and incompetence.
Why Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil is the Worst Book of the Decade : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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He felt a real country bumpkin, sitting in that expensive restaurant, not knowing which cutlery to use.
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So how did this gangly, awkward and reserved country "bumpkin" entering the stage with one purpose in mind -- saving the nation -- make it happen?
A Leadership Style for the Ages
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This beautiful bumpkin figured out that you can also conserve by decreasing the size of your bathtub — or, in this case, temporarily repurposing a washtub.
Girls Go Postal! | Bubbling Over
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'I'll tie myself in a knot, and shalt wheel me through; and what with my crippledom and thy piety, a-wheeling of thy poor old dad, we'll bleed the bumpkins of a dacha-saltee.'
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Yeah , she was definitely a country bumpkin . Were you able to understand her?
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Subtle changes are taking place, though, in our attitudes towards these country bumpkins.
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Queequeg quickly fastens the boom and then dives into the freezing water and rescues the bumpkin.
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And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago.
STARDUST
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It's funny, but even now in 2002 some people still cling to the idea that we are some bunch of country bumpkins, when the reality is that we are probably as clued up as anyone in Scotland.
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The policeman rubbed down the country bumpkin, but found nothing suspicious.
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This bumpkin is as dumb as Palin, M. Sanford, Limbaugh el al
Graham move imperils Obama agenda
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And every country faced the same problem when it came to dubbing the aw-shucks ramblings of one of the movie's lead characters - the country bumpkin tow truck Mater, voiced in the movie by Larry the Cable Guy.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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Even the conductress will occasionally offer a helping hand to an overburdened bumpkin.
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Many in his own party regarded him as a country bumpkin who lacked the education and moral character to lead our nation through such a fateful crisis.
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A lot of the people I've seen hunting have actually gone in anoraks, and who most townies would describe as thick country bumpkins.
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Adversely affected by the new sin tax were some Pennsylvania farmers who were thought to be a few over consuming (whiskey) "bumpkins" by the government "elites.
American Thinker
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The country bumpkins, arriving here to gawk, are now more materially behind the urban living average than ever (a recent survey put this at more than African cities).
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Although her elder sister Nancy had immortalised their parents as upper-class bumpkins in the Oxfordshire countryside, their background was in fact exotic.
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Can any sane person, we may ask, have expected to get Henry James's juices flowing with a plot abounding in bumpkins, spleen, assault, and battery?
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Mark Twain's Reconstruction | Blount Jr.
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The middle of the state is dominated by rural folks, not a few of whom can be fairly called rednecks or bumpkins.
A Field Guide to Republican Habitats
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Our first game against Chelsea was billed as the country bumpkins against the city boys.
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The Chinese also have a familiar term for what we would call a hick or a country bumpkin, and that is a xiali Ba ren, literally, a ‘villager from Ba.’
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Next, a bumpkinish cop, annoying his dozing partner, is shown playing with his radar gun.
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Also included in the mix are the two comic country bumpkins, stereotypical toothless hillbillies with their pipes, dilapidated hats, and cargo of farm livestock.
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But he was a country bumpkin at heart, already dressed for the weekend in blue overalls, a red plaid shirt, and an old fashioned railroad engineer's striped hat.
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His sarong is no longer just a piece of cloth sewn into a tube but is shaped into sensual curves to be worn for a formal musical soirée without feeling like a country bumpkin.
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Her "cutesy" manner and country-bumpkin expressions are a reflection of her thought process and her inability to communicate as an educated adult.
McCain campaign adviser pushes back on Palin book
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Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin from bump; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard: in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from thence applied to a large flagon, or full glass.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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Sometimes, as in the joke about asking directions from a country bumpkin, the easiest way to get from A to B is not to start at A at all.
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To be honest we were a real bunch of country bumpkins.
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If being a bumpkin were his only fault, one could excuse his ignorance.
Think Progress » Conservative prof. chides Bush’s management style.
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There have portrayed all country people as stupid bumpkins.
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Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
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Equally, country folk have been called bumpkins, even pumpkins and sheep-shaggers, amongst other names.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
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Simple but elegant, not bumpkinish.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are fortunate that we have thoughtful leaders in the White House, rather than the "hate the government (i.e., country)" bumpkins from the red states.
Pawlenty slams Dems on 'reckless' spending
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We country bumpkins are older and wiser and financially poorer now because of increased parish rates.
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Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
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They're kind of bumpkinish, they have cockfights and stuff, and they don't really know the world outside the chicken farm.
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And he wasn't about fall for the trap the country bumpkins at Auburn laid for him.
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Hamels, who owns the best changeup this side of, well, Jamie Moyer, is just one of a multitude of weapons that can be deployed by manager Charlie Manuel, who will never again be called a bumpkin after masterminding just the second title in 125 years by the Phillies.
The Seattle Times
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There are a wide variety of people out on the street - whalemen of all kind, from the decent sort to the country bumpkin.
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I hear ya kayaks are like arugala to these bumpkins … Weird and different which means scary and threatening …
Think Progress » Bishops Dismiss Other Catholic Groups: We’re The Only Ones Able To Understand Health Care Policy
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Her criticisms dismiss her as a country bumpkin with rough features only westerners could appreciate.
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The things we bumpkins who can only dream of being in Biden's IQ stanine learn while lurking!
Planet Atheism
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So, as a metropolitan self-professed 'country bumpkin', where do you end up?
Times, Sunday Times
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Once seen as the tipple for students and country bumpkins, cider is now the drink of the moment.
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The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.
The Abbot
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And ye merry host being as much moneylender, guller of country bumpkins and young gallants, as he was publican; and the drawer always managing to add a few more chalk-marks to the board than were rightfully yours —
The Dirty Duck
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This might not seem like news worthy of reporting, but it's the fact that it felt like the visit of a pair of country bumpkins to ‘the big city’ that makes it a noteworthy event.
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And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago.
STARDUST
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Frog : Hey , I'm no country bumpkin!
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Where Ms. Chua famously rejected the birthday card her 4-year-old made for her and threatened to burn her other daughter's stuffed animals if her piano-playing wasn't perfect, the "Mom" in Ms. Shin's book lavishes unstinting care, behind the scenes, on her children, even as one calls her a "country bumpkin" when she brings them rice cakes in the city.
Lost in a World Without Roots
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As a general thing, we understand that the person to whom the epithet is applied is a lazy, lumpy bumpkin.
Janey Canuck in the West
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Proposed Slogan: ‘We Don't Think All you Religious Neanderthals are Credulous Bumpkins!
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Ernie's slow drawl and grounded certainty are a good counter point to Steve's bumpkinish demeanor.
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Y'see, these country bumpkins from Ontario had the audacity and nerve to cover part one of Pink Floyd's classic The Wall.
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LOL! i'm tellin 'ya! .. she meows and her lip (do cats have lips?) gets stuck where her tooth is missing and it makes the "Thank you, thank you very much" look on her! ... i've been calling her "bumpkin" for losing the tooth! .. heeheee!
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
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-- The term "bumpkin" is of Dutch origin, taken from the word
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
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Shortly later, Camillo, the heroine's elderly and ineffectual husband, was enacted by a young beanpole of a bumpkin.