hick

[hik] /hɪk/
noun
1.
an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
adjective
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of hicks:
hick ideas.
3.
located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area:
a hick town.
Origin
1555-65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard
Examples from the web for hick
  • To many of his contemporaries, he had the appearance of a boorish millionaire, a hick made good.
  • They loathed the corruption and inability of the hick-elites who only took office on a wave of public opinion.
British Dictionary definitions for hick

hick

/hɪk/
noun
1.
(informal)
  1. a country person; bumpkin
  2. (as modifier): hick ideas
Word Origin
C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard
Word Origin and History for hick
n.

late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (cf. rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]

Slang definitions & phrases for hick

hick

modifier

: wasn't bad looking in a hick way/ that hick chief of police

noun

A rural person; a simple, countrified man or woman; apple-knocker, rube: The automobile largely nullified the outward distinctions between hick and city slicker

[1565+; fr a nickname of Richard, thought of as a country name, as Reuben is the base of ''rube'']