HICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hick mean? 

• HICK (noun)
  The noun HICK has 1 sense:

1. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

  Familiarity information: HICK used as a noun is very rare.

• HICK (adjective)
  The adjective HICK has 1 sense:

1. awkwardly simple and provincial

  Familiarity information: HICK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bumpkin; chawbacon; hayseed; hick; rube; yahoo; yokel

Hypernyms ("hick" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

• HICK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Awkwardly simple and provincial

Synonyms:

bumpkinly; hick; rustic; unsophisticated

Context example:

the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists

Similar:

provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)

 Context examples 

Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went “Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,” the mill went “Click clack, click clack, click clack.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"Young Parke's in trouble," he said rapidly. "They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter. They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before. What d'you know about that, hey? You never can tell in these hick towns—"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)