hick Definition
hick (hik)
noun
Informal an awkward, unsophisticated person regarded as typical of rural areas; yokel; hayseed: a contemptuous term
Etymology: altered < Richard
adjective
Informal of or like a hick or hicks
hick Usage Examples
Converse of object
have: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 Bush Was Right...and he has fat right-wing redneck hicks with guitars to prove it.
Adjective modifier
dumb: He's not going to tell an Irish journalist that he thinks we're all dumb hicks.
Modifies a noun
- town: POLLIDORI: What happened to our dream about getting out of this place - getting away from this hick town?
- contraction: While she was here, I told her that I'd been having braxton hicks contractions.
Noun used with modifier
- braxton: But I'm not feeling any contractions, nor have I ever felt braxton hicks or anything.
- country: He was getting just a trifle fed up with appearing like a country hick.
- backwoods: It is also worth noting that John Washington Butler, the author of the Act, was far from being a narrow-minded backwoods hick.
- redneck: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 Bush Was Right...and he has fat right-wing redneck hicks with guitars to prove it.
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