_:vb6919596 . _:vb6919597 . _:vb6919598 . . . _:vb6919594 "[\u2026] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind."@en . _:vb6919593 "\u201C [\u2026] my opinion at once is [\u2026] that this [robbery] wasn\u2019t done by a yokel\u2015eh, Duff?\u201D\u201CCertainly not,\u201D replied Duff.\u201CAnd, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?\u201D said Mr. Losberne with a smile."@en . _:vb6919596 "1938 April, C[ecil] S[cott] Forester [pseudonym; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith], chapter V, in A Ship of the Line, Greenwich edition, London: Michael Joseph, published 1951 (February 1962 printing), \u2192OCLC, pages 40\u201341:"@en . _:vb6919595 "1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter VIII, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, \u2192OCLC, page 88:"@en . . _:vb6919598 "You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world\u2015or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world\u2015and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. [\u2026]"@en . . . . _:vb6919591 . . _:vb6919598 "1993, Vikram Seth, chapter 8.6, in A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, published 1994, page 560:"@en . . _:vb6919592 "They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels."@en . . _:vb6919596 "\"God damn and blast all you hamfisted yokels!\" he was saying. \"And you, sir, down there. Take that grin off your face and be more careful, or I'll have you clapped under hatches to sail with us today. Easy, there, easy! Christ, rum at seven guineas an anker isn't meant to be dropped like pig iron!\""@en . _:vb6919597 "1985, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Prick of Noon, Penguin, page 119:"@en . _:vb6919594 "1848 June 27, William Makepeace Thackeray, \u201CBefore the Curtain\u201D, in Vanity Fair\u00A0[\u2026], London: Bradbury and Evans\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page vii:"@en . "1" . _:vb6919595 "He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion."@en . _:vb6919591 "(pejorative) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive."@en . . . . _:vb6919592 . _:vb6919593 "1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], \u201CInvolves a Critical Position\u201D, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy\u2019s Progress.\u00A0[\u2026], volume II, London: Richard Bentley,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 181:"@en . _:vb6919593 . _:vb6919594 . _:vb6919597 "I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blas\u00E9 country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels."@en . _:vb6919595 .