Yokelry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈjoʊkəlɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Yokelry is a noun meaning (derogatory) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi.
Meaning
(derogatory) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi.
Example Sentences
A desire to dazzle the yokelry in the $2.75 box seats will account for a good deal of the coloring of Mr. Wylie's writing.
A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor.
When the professors touch the caustic to the American yokelry for its lavish esteem of such mush as "Peg o' My Heart," do the solemn comedians not recall that the British yokelry has esteemed it no less?
Word Forms
- yokelries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include yokel, yokeldom, yokelism, rube, hoblob, peasantry.
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