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yokel

yo·kel

UK/ˈjəʊ.kəl/ US/ˈjoʊ.kəl/ rare slang

noun

Origin

First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“a peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“a European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.

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