clumsy+rustic

  • 41hick — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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  • 42rube — Synonyms and related words: babe, backwoodsman, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country born,… …

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  • 43oafish — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. clumsy, awkward, *klutzy, stupid, ignorant, simple, rustic. ANT.: sophisticated, intelligent, *smooth …

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  • 44clodhopper — n a. a clumsy or boorish person. The term originally (two hundred odd years ago) referred to a ploughman or rustic (treading clods of earth in the fields). b. British a policeman. Rhyming slang from copper, rather than a simple pejorative …

    Contemporary slang

  • 45noddy — n British a buffoon, simpleton, clumsy or ungainly person. In modern usage the term has been specifically applied to low ranking police officers by members of the CID and public. Noddy is an archaic rustic term for a simple minded or cloddish… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 46patois —    (pah TWAH) [French: clumsy speech] A local or rustic dialect, especially in France, that differs noticeably from the standard language; a provincial form of speech; jargon.    a theater troupe that performs in the original Macanese patois, an… …

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  • 47boorish — a. Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly …

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  • 48clownish — a. 1. Rustic, boorish, loutish, coarse, rough, awkward, clumsy, ungainly. 2. Rude, impolite, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, churlish …

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  • 49uncouth — a. 1. Rustic, awkward, boorish, clownish, loutish, clumsy, unseemly, unrefined, uncourtly, lubberly, rude, gawky, inelegant, ungainly. 2. Unfamiliar, unusual, strange, odd, outlandish …

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  • 50gawky — I. a. Awkward, ungainly, clownish, boorish, rustic, clumsy, raw, green, uncouth, loutish. II. n. Clown, boor, booby, lout, bumpkin, gawk, awkward simpleton …

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