bumpkin.
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
Meaning & usage
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
Where this word comes from
From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.