A yokel is a country person pictured as slow, simple and out of touch with modern city life — someone who stares at tall buildings and does not know how anything works. The important thing is that this is a picture, not a fact: the word says more about the speaker looking down on the countryside than about the person being described. It is an insult, though usually a light and old-fashioned one, and it often appears in jokes, in comedy, and in phrases like "a bunch of yokels" or "some yokel from out of town". People also use it about themselves, jokingly, to say they felt lost in a big place: "I stood there like a yokel with my mouth open." It sounds a bit dated now, more common in books and films than in real conversation, and it is more British than American — Americans have their own words, such as hick or country bumpkin.

鄉巴佬、土包子（帶有城市人看不起鄉下人的意味，多半是開玩笑或舊式用法）