bumpkinism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bumpkinism (uncountable)
- The fact or quality of being a bumpkin.
- 1967, Chinese Communist Affairs, volume 4, page 57:
- Unavoidably the economic crisis brought about by Mao's bumpkinism rocked the Communist boat.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 324:
- But from the point of view of Joseph II and his successors it was a purely Enlightenment project – the rescue of a benighted land from the feudal bumpkinism of Polish aristocrats.