Definitions for yokel

yokel yo·kel

Spelling: [yoh-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈyoʊ kəl/

Yokel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in yokel (ekloy).

Definitions for yokel

noun

  1. an unsophisticated person from a rural area; a country bumpkin.

Origin of yokel

First recorded in 1805-15; origin uncertain

Examples for yokel

This man was a yokel of no interest to us, apart from this one episode in his career.

This yokel from the woods and mountains needed a little coaxing.

Tristrem looked at him much as a yokel at a fair might look at a wizard.

If that isn't a Zummerset or Devon yokel, sink me for a landlubber!

Thebold had been chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.

I have a notion that I sat there staring and listening like a yokel at a play.

They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends.

The yokel was a year or two older, was taller, and stones heavier.

It is the militia-man, the yokel, standing facing the captain and gesticulating at him.

McAllister hastily tried to assume the expression and manner of a yokel.

Word Value for yokel
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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