bumpkin

英 ['b?m(p)k?n] 美['b?mpk?n]

復數:?bumpkins;

bumpkin 鄉(xiāng)巴佬

bump, 同beam, 樹干。-kin, 小詞后綴。

bumpkin: bumpkin: [16] Originally, bumpkin seems to have been a humorously disparaging epithet for a Dutch person: in the first known record of the word, in Peter Levins’s Dictionary of English and Latin words 1570, it is glossed batavus (Batavia was the name of an island at the mouth of the Rhine in ancient times, and was henceforth associated with the Netherlands). It was probably a Dutch word, boomken ‘little tree’ (from boom ‘tree’, related to German baum ‘tree’ and English beam), used with reference to Netherlanders’ supposedly dumpy stature. The phrase ‘country bumpkin’ is first recorded from the later 18th century.
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bumpkin (n.): "awkward country fellow," 1560s, probably from Middle Dutch bommekijn "little barrel," diminutive of boom "tree" (see beam (n.)). Apparently, though itself Dutch, it began as a derogatory reference to Dutch people as short and dumpy.

1. He felt a real country bumpkin, sitting in that expensive restaurant, not knowing which cutlery to use.: 他覺得自己像個土老帽兒, 坐在高級餐廳里, 不知道該用哪一件餐具.

2. Beneath the polished veneer, he is a country bumpkin.: 盡管有著優(yōu)雅的外表, 他不過是個鄉(xiāng)巴佬.

3. The bumbling bumblebee bumped the bumper of a bumpkin's Buick.: 口齒不清的大黃蜂撞上了一個鄉(xiāng)下人別克車的保險杠.

4. The policeman rubbed down the country bumpkin, but found nothing suspicious.: 警察把那個鄉(xiāng)下佬渾身上下搜查了一遍, 但未發(fā)現可疑之處.

5. The bumpkin herself made indiscreet remarks to her countrymen.: 自己土包子一個知識淺漏,卻對同胞指手畫腳,這不對那不對.