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Hick

Hick

See also: hick

English

Proper noun

Hick

(rare today) A diminutive of the male given name Richard
A patronymic surname.

Derived terms

Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Related terms

Dick

hick

hick

See also: Hick

English

Noun

hick ‎(plural hicks)

(pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]

Synonyms

Translations

country yokel or hillbilly

Chinese:
Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) ‎(tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 (zh), 乡巴佬 (zh) ‎(xiāngbalǎo)
Czech: balík (cs) m
Dutch: boerenkinkel (nl) m, boerenpummel (nl) m, boer (nl) m, boerenlul m
Finnish: landepaukku (fi), maalaistollo
French: plouc (fr) m, f
German: Landei (de) n, Hinterwäldler (de) m
Greek: χωριάτης (el) m ‎(choriátis), (regional) βλάχος (el) m ‎(vláchos)

Hungarian: bunkó (hu)
Indonesian: kampungan (id)
Italian: buzzurro m
Norwegian: bondsk
Portuguese: caipira (pt)
Romanian: țărănoi (ro) m, țăran (ro) m
Russian: деревенщина (ru) m ‎(derevenščina)
Slovene: kmetavz m
Spanish: paleto m
Swedish: bondläpp (sv)
Thai: ตาสีตาสา (th) ‎(taa sĭi taa săa)

Etymology 2

Verb

hick ‎(third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)

to hiccup

Translations

hiccup — see hiccup

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

second-person singular imperative of hicken

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