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BUMPKIN

An awkward, hard country lad; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." Origin: The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. Chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and fat piece of tree, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a nave goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of tree; cf. OD. Boomken a few wood. See Boom a pole. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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