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Webster 1913 Edition
Bumpkin
Bump′kin
,Noun.
[The same word as
bumkin
, which Cotgrave defines thus: “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.” 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.
“Bashful country bumpkins.” W. Irving.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bumpkin
BUMP'KIN
,Noun.