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Yokel vs Woolhat - What's the difference?

yokel | woolhat |

As nouns the difference between yokel and woolhat

is that yokel is (pejorative) an unsophisticated person while woolhat is (us) a yokel or redneck.

yokel

English

Noun

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

    • Synonyms

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

    References

    woolhat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A yokel or redneck.
  • * 1939 , Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road
    • From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.
  • * 1964 , K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1
    • We're woolhats , red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet.
  • * 2002 , Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School
    • While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats ...