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De - Pt| English Dictionary: bumpkin | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for bumpkin | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Bumpkin \Bump"kin\, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: [bd]Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.[b8] Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See {Boom} a pole.] An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. [bd]Bashful country bumpkins.[b8] --W. Irving. | |
