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Rube
rube
rube
English
Alternative forms
- Reub
Noun
rube (plural rubes)
- (US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “8”, in Babbitt:
- "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done--did. […] "
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- (pejorative) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:rube.
Translations
person of rural heritage; a yokel
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pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person