Translations for „yokel“ in the English » German Dictionary

yo·kel [ˈjəʊkəl, Am ˈjoʊ-] N hum or pej

yokel

Tölpel m

yokel

Tollpatsch m

country yokel

Bauerntölpel m pej

country yokel

Landei nt CH pej

country yokel

G[e]scherter m A pej sl

country yokel (woman also)

Landpomeranze f hum

local yokel

Dorftrottel m pej inf

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

country yokel

G[e]scherter m A pej sl

local yokel

Dorftrottel m pej inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Stereotypes such as the dimwitted yokel, and potentially harmful characterizations (such as demonic possession for people with epilepsy) were prominent in social attitudes of the time.

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How did a nation of work-shy yokels with a troubling past come to hold the world's future in its hands?

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The stadium show opened to a quintessential rural idyll of happy yokels set in a non-specific sepia-tinted yesteryear.

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The invader gratuitously left these machines around for the yokels.

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The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone.

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I wanted to talk to her but our translator didn't; he saw her as a country yokel and had no interest in a conversation.

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Why would he want to deal with us yokels?

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We poetry readers are more likely to be yokels than toffs.

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By the way people who live outside of large conurbations are not known as yokels or country bumpkins for no good reason.

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He chastised the degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls.

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