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hick

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hick /hɪk/ noun [countable] American English informal  INSULTsomeone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid 乡巴佬,土包子hick adjective hick towns 土里土气的小镇
Examples from the Corpus
hickMy companions start talking in Arabic again and I have the depressing sense of being a hick tourist fallen among real travellers.Just a hick town, I guess.Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.You were quite good, playing up to the hicks.The whole hick aspect and the nasty women would pass into nothingness as they had passed into silence.
Origin hick (1500-1600) Hick, a man's name, from Richard
hick nounChinese
countryside, lives and the Corpus is in someone who


hick
hick /hɪk/ noun [countable] American English informal
 Date: 1500-1600
 Origin: Hick, a man__s name, from Richard
someone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid
—hick adjective:
    hick towns


hickBrE /hɪk/ 🔊NAmE /hɪk/ 🔊 noun (informal, especially NAmE) a person from the country who is considered to be stupid and to have little experience of life 乡巴佬;土里土气的人I was just a hick from Texas then. 那时我不过是从得克萨斯州来的土包子。🔊🔊 hick adjectivea hick town小乡镇