hick

See also: Hick

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɪk/
Homophone: hic
Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).

Noun

hick (plural hicks)

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

Synonyms

Translations

country yokel or hillbilly

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: селяндур m (seljandur)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 (zh), 乡巴佬 (zh) (xiāngbalǎo)
Czech: balík (cs) m
Dutch: boerenkinkel (nl) m, boerenpummel (nl) m, boer (nl) m, boerenlul m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: landepaukku (fi), maalaistollo
French: plouc (fr) m, f
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)
Indonesian: kampungan (id)

Italian: buzzurro (it) m
Japanese: いなかもん (inakamon)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: bondsk
Portuguese: caipira (pt)
Romanian: țărănoi (ro) m, țăran (ro) m
Russian: деревенщина (ru) m (derevenščina)
Slovene: kmetavz m
Spanish: paleto m
Swedish: bondläpp (sv)
Thai: ตาสีตาสา (th) (dtaa-sǐi-dtaa-sǎa)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

Verb

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

to hiccup

Translations

hiccup — see hiccup

References

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

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

second-person singular imperative of hicken

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