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noun
- 1. a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial: informal North American "she puts on a hick accent" Similar
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HICK definition: 1. a person from the countryside who is considered to be stupid and without experience: 2. a…. Learn more.
If you refer to someone as a hick, you are saying in a rude way that you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
The meaning of HICK is an unsophisticated provincial person. How to use hick in a sentence.
HICK meaning: 1. a person from the countryside who is considered to be stupid and without experience: 2. a…. Learn more.
Hick definition: an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.. See examples of HICK used in a sentence.
A hick is an unsophisticated, rural person. Your accent and fondness for wearing overalls might make some people think you're a hick. The word hick is both informal and derogatory — in other words, if you call your cousin who raises dairy goats and chickens a hick, she'll probably be offended.
A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" (Louis Auchincloss). adj. Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town. [After Hick, a nickname for Richard, from Middle English Hikke .]
Hick definition: A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country.
How to use . hick in a sentenceWhat were your sources for that voice—or voices, because Lincoln is sometimes hick, sometimes Cicero?
Definition of hick noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
