bumpkin

plural bumpkins

1. A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

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   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.

   2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, “Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality”, in Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Resonant Silence), page 158

2. nauticalA short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
3. 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.

   1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1