Definitions for yokels

yokels yo·kel

Spelling: [yoh-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈyoʊ kəl/

Yokels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in yokels (eklosy).

Definitions for yokels

noun

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

Origin of yokels

First recorded in 1805-15; origin uncertain

Examples for yokels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for yokels
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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