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/ˈjoʊkəlɹi/ · noun
(derogatory) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi..
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?
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.
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Yokelry means (derogatory) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi..
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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?
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