joskin

plural joskins

1. UKA yokel, country bumpkin.

   A Joskin's Vocabulary Of the various Slang Words now in constant use; the whole being a Moving Picture of all the New Moves and Artful Dodges practised at the present day

   1934, Iwan Bloch, Sex Life in England, volumes 1-2, Panurge Press, page 309

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   — ‘But look at him,’ groaned Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Will any coach—’ — ‘I don’t mean that he thould go in the comic livery,’ said Sleary. ‘Thay the word, and I’ll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes.’ — ‘I don’t understand,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. — ‘A Jothkin—a Carter. Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There’ll be beer to feth. I’ve never met with nothing but beer ath’ll ever clean a comic blackamoor.’

   1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC

   it was something about the Screen Extras Guild requiring that if you do a picture that costs a certain amount of money, you have to have at least four extra speaking parts. So we wrote in this scene with these four old joskins dressed as damn cowboys.

   1998, “Writing Bad Day at Black Rock: A Talk with Millard Kaufman”, in Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art, volume 2, number Winter 1996, number 4, pages 188–192

   Synonyms: bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl