bumpkin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
    rube; yahoo; hayseed; chawbacon; yokel; hick.

WordNet

Bump"kin noun
Etymology
The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.
Definitions
  1. An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Webster 1913