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In some senses, rube is marked as informal, derogatory, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
rube
/ɹuːb/
noun 2name 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
complex, easy, little
VERB + RUBE
built, excusing, hustling, like, look, scrubbed, sense
RUBE + NOUN
burgs, goldberg, machine
PREP.
with
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.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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"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. […]"
Wiktionary02
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.
Wiktionary03
Tom built a Rube Goldberg machine.
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A couple built a complex Rube Goldberg machine to reveal the gender of their coming baby.
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When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
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