hick

See also: Hick

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: hic
• Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).

Noun

hick (plural hicks)

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

   Synonyms: boor, country bumpkin, churl, hillbilly, lob, redneck, rustic, yokel; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin

Derived terms

• hick-hop

Translations

country yokel or hillbilly

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: селяндур m (seljandur)
• Catalan: taujà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬／乡巴佬 (zh) (xiāngbalǎo)

• Czech: balík (cs) m
• Dutch: boerenkinkel (nl) m, boerenpummel (nl) m, boer (nl) m, boerenlul (nl) m
• Esperanto: kamparanaĉo
• Finnish: landepaukku (fi), maalaistollo (fi)
• French: plouc (fr) m or f
• Galician: pailán m, pailaroco m, badoco m, paduán (gl) m, laraxo m, paifoco (gl) m, fuco m, cirolán m, caloio m, códeo m, estoa m, xoubio m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Landei (de) n, Hinterwäldler (de) m
• Greek: χωριάτης (el) m (choriátis), (regional) βλάχος (el) m (vláchos)
• Hungarian: bunkó (hu), sutyerák (hu)
• Indonesian: kampungan (id)
• Irish: cábóg f, tútachán m
• Italian: buzzurro (it) m
• Japanese: いなかもん (inakamon)
• Korean: 시골뜨기 (ko) (sigoltteugi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: petrō m
• Macedonian: се́лјак m (séljak)
• Norwegian: bondsk
• Polish: prostak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caipira (pt) m or f
• Romanian: țărănoi (ro) m, țăran (ro) m
• Russian: деревенщина (ru) m (derevenščina)
• Serbo-Croatian: seljačina (sh) f
• Slovene: kmetavz m
• Spanish: paleto m
• Swedish: bondläpp (sv)
• Thai: ตาสีตาสา (th) (dtaa-sǐi-dtaa-sǎa)
• Vietnamese: dân quê (vi)
• Welsh: gwladwr m
• Yiddish: קליינשטעטלדיקער m (kleynshtetldiker), קליינשטעטלדיקע f (kleynshtetldike)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

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

1. To hiccup.

Translations

hiccup — see hiccup

References

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

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

1. second-person singular imperative of hicken