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Yokel vs Vulgarian - What's the difference?

yokel | vulgarian | Related terms |

Yokel is a related term of vulgarian.


As nouns the difference between yokel and vulgarian

is that yokel is (pejorative) an unsophisticated person while vulgarian is a vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to their vulgar qualities.

As an adjective vulgarian is

having the characteristics of a , vulgar.

yokel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) An unsophisticated person.
  • A person of rural background.
  • Synonyms

    * boor * bumpkin * joskin * hillbilly (US) * hick

    References

    vulgarian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to their vulgar qualities.
  • * 1894 , , The Ebb-Tide [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ebb-Tide]
  • He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian , three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...
  • * 1907 , , Social Value of the College-Bred [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Social_Value_of_the_College-Bred]
  • But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian , unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.
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  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the characteristics of a , vulgar.