词汇 | yokel |
词源 | yokel. The English green woodpecker was named the yokel because its call sounds like “yo-KEL, yo-KEL.” Toward the beginning of the 19th century, people in England began calling country bumpkins yokels because they lived where the yokels sang. |
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