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
• hickish
• hicklike
• hickock
• hickster
• Hicksville
• hixploitation

Translations

country yokel or hillbilly

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: селяндур (bg) 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, labrego (pt), saloio (pt) Romanian: țărănoi (ro) m, țăran (ro) m Russian: деревенщина (ru) m (derevenščina) Serbo-Croatian: seljačina (sh) f Slovene: kmetavz m Spanish: paleto (es) m, palurdo (es) m, gueishpo m (El Salvador) 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

• “hick” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

1. second-person singular imperative of hicken