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▪ I. bumpkin|ˈbʌmpkɪn|
Forms: 6 bunkin, 7–8 bumkin, (7 bumking), 7– bumpkin.
[The curious gloss in the first quot. suggests that bunkin (presumably the same word) was a humorous appellation for a Dutchman, and meant a man with short stumpy figure. The word may be a. Du. boomken ‘little tree’ (Hexham); cf. bumkin n.1 It may however be ad. MDu. bommekijn ‘little barrel’, or f. bum n.1 + -kin.]
1. An awkward country fellow, a clown.
1570Levins Manip. 133 A Bunkin, felow, Batavus, strigo. 1658Ld. Windsor in Hatton Corresp. (1878) 15 That I may not looke more lyke a bumking than the rest. 1713Steele in Englishman No. 40. 258 A Northamptonshire Bumpkin would disdain to gather in such a Crop. 1774Chesterfield Lett. I. No. 44. 141 A country bumpkin is ashamed when he comes into good company. 1820Irving Sketch Bk. II. 357 The more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back. 1862Comm. Pl. Philosopher 369.
2. ? Some kind of dance.
1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton i. xii. (1842) 74, I danced a bumpkin with the boy.
Hence bumpkinet, a little bumpkin. bumpkinish, bumpkinly adjs., like a bumpkin, clownish, rustic. bumpkinship (humorous), the personality of a bumpkin.
1774J. Langhorne Country Just. 122 Shall Bumpkin come, and bumpkinets be born! 1881Times 12 Jan. 4/1 Peggy..was a little, vulgar, country bumpkinet. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1794) I. 73, I had been brought up in the country, which..had given me a very bumpkinish air. 1861Court Life Naples 140 Our heroine..had the bumpkinish taste to love every person and thing connected with her home. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse iv. v, A pax of these bumkinly people! 1823Scott Peveril (1831) II. 265 A bumpkinly, clod-compelling sort of look. 1872M. E. Braddon R. Ainsleigh I. xiii. 223 A man of the world..to be ousted and cheated by your bumpkinship.
▪ II. bumpkin
another form of bumkin1 (in a ship). |