单词 | hick |
释义 | hick /hɪk/ noun [countable] American English informal INSULTsomeone who lives in the countryside, and is thought to be uneducated or stupid 乡巴佬,土包子 —hick adjective hick towns 土里土气的小镇Examples 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 Richardhick nounChinese countryside, lives and the Corpus is in someone who |
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