An unsophisticated person. Not very intellegent or interested in culture.
Generally refers to someone living in a rural area.
Bumpkin is a derivative of bum, “the rear end. It may come from either the Middle Dutch word bommekijn, “ a little barrel,” or the Flemish word boomken, “shrub" Such a person may easily have been compared to a block of wood;
Bumpkins are residents of the small country town of Portsmouth in Hampshire. They dress like scarecrows and speak with a quaint rural dialect, using Romany words like dinlo and shant. These poor simpletons are also know as carrot crunchers or worzels.
a bumpkin typically lives in a small midwest town, enjoys sitting on porches, speaks 5x slower then the average human being, likes to express their feelings, and usually hold jobs at ace hardware.
A bastardization of the word pumpkin, Bumpkin is a softener for hillbilly, hick, farmer, Hayseed, not to be confused with Redneck. In this vernacular a man referred to by these types would be a pumpkin, or a little sweet, read as Gay. The softening to Bumpkin usually gives it a more benign meaning like he's harmless or he's simple. Not minded, just without nefarious intentions. Which makes him an excellent Rube.
