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joskin
[ jos-kin ]
noun
, Chiefly British Slang.
- a bumpkin.
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Joskin, jos′kin, n. a clown, yokel.
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It did not matter much to the condemned joskin that he was trundled about the town for two hours after they had returned, and finally deposited under the settle of an inn.
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“Is there a good bottom here, my man?” he asks of a country joskin regarding him with a wide smile.
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Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon gave his old-soldier version of the name: "For over 40 years a Joe has meant a Jasper, a Joskin, a yokel, a hey-rube, a hick, a clodhopper, a sucker."
“Why, she doant look a bit better than oul granny,” remarks a country joskin.
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