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A bumpkin is someone from the countryside, named that way by people who think country life makes you stupid, slow, or awkward in town. It is almost always , or at least teasing. You hear it most in the set phrase “country bumpkin.” City people have used it to laugh at clothes, speech, or manners that do not match city fashion. The word feels old-fashioned now, and many speakers would simply call it rude. In stories it still marks the country person who looks lost in the city. A kind person does not use it about a real .
土包子（帶看不起鄉下人的意思）
組成From Dutch boomken, “little tree” or “shrub”: boom (“tree”) + -ken (a smallness ending). English later used it for an awkward country person. The English word boom for a long pole — on a ship, for example — comes from that same “tree” word.
同家族的字
- booma long pole, originally a ‘tree’; from the same Dutch word as the boom- in boomken
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bumpkinnoun/ˈbʌmpkɪn/
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A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
- Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.
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nauticaltransportA short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
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Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
- They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。