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In some senses, rube is marked as informal, derogatory, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
rube
UK /ɹuːb/ US /ɹuːb/
noun 2name 2
Definitions
noun
1
A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
"Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done—did. […]"
You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.
2
An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
name
1
A diminutive of the male given name Reuben.
2
A male given name.
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