Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for local yokel

local yokel



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

A native or inhabitant of a particular locale, as in She's only gone out with local yokels, so she's not used to more sophisticated men . This disparaging rhyming term was first used by troops stationed away from home. [ Slang ; mid-1900s]
Discover More

Example Sentences

Don decided to use his own name but pretend to be a local yokel.

In the dim local yokel mind Paul was a failure, and he knew it.

Advertisement

Related Words

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


local windLocarno