For some strange reason, back at the first or second Vancouver blogger meetup, I started collecting synonyms for ‘hick’. I promptly forgot about them until I was paging through my notebook. Here’s my list, with country of origin (where available):
- rock spider – South Africa
- muck savage – Ireland (my personal favourite)
- bog muncher – Ireland
- cultchie – Ireland
- campesino – Spain? Mexico?
- bumpkin
- redneck
- okie
- pigfucker
- local yokel
- moosefucker (one word or two?)
- billy bob
- bubba
Do you have other suggestions? Leave a comment.
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An Australian term I’ve heard used is “yabbo”, which is the equivalent of a redneck.
Ralph Klein?
I wouldn’t put Campesino in the list, it just means “farmer”.
Rebecca is right, but its Yobbo.
Hick
Here are some options from Thesaurus.com:
rustic
clodhopper
backwoodsman
boor
clod
clodhopper
clown
corn-fed
country boy
country cousin
countryman
farmer
hayseed
hillbilly
jake
mossback
mountaineer
peasant
provincial
rube
rural
wahoo
yokel
I have heard rock spider being used as a racial slur against the portuguese, due to them being overly hairy.
But I can’t account for all uses of the phrase. =)
English words for “hick”:
gippo
pikey
and the ultimate favourite British word of the year: Chav.
One which we have in Switzerland is:
Bünzli
(Swiss German- Dialect)
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Another Irish term is “bog warrior”.
heehee. I see “pigfucker” and automatically think “fuckpig”. This is not the same thing whatsoever, but amuses me nonetheless.
fuckpig. hee.
Maybe interesting to word nerds – the word “villain” started out, during the middle ages, meaning rustic or low born hicks… like villa = country house: same roots.
Pigfucker- That’s not a synonym for hick that is a term of endearment at our house. Shitkickers and goatropers on the otherhand are hicks.