| 单词 | hick |
| 释义 | hick From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhickhick /hɪk/ noun [countable] American English informalINSULTsomeone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid —hick adjectivehick townsExamples from the Corpushick• My companions start talking in Arabic again and I have the depressing sense of being a hick tourist fallen among real travellers.• Just a hick town, I guess.• Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.• You were quite good, playing up to the hicks.• The whole hick aspect and the nasty women would pass into nothingness as they had passed into silence.Origin hick (1500-1600) Hick, a man's name, from Richard |
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