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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

hick
    adj 1: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country
           boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
           Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn:
           bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated]
    n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in
         culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed,
         bumpkin, chawbacon]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hick \hick\ n.
   A person who is not very intelligent or interested in
   culture; a hayseed.

   Syn: yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hick \hick\ adj.
   1. rural. Opposite of urban.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not
      knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as,
      hick ideas; a hick town.

   Syn: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated.
        [WordNet 1.5] hickey

Thesaurus Results for hick:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop, yokel, yokelish

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