They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.

He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.

I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.

1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Chapter 8.6, p. 560,
‘You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world―or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world―and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. […] ’

Yokel

Meaning

Noun

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