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# hick

«hick» in Mova's school dictionary: **An insulting word for someone from the countryside…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a hick, hicks); adjective (hick)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (US, informal, rude) An insulting word for someone from the countryside, suggesting they are simple and old-fashioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#m1)

2) (adjective, informal) Small, rural and old-fashioned: a hick town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#m2)

3) A short sound like a hiccup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In American stories and films «hick» is used by snobbish characters to look down on country people. In kindness lessons it is an example of a word that mocks people for where they live. Phrases: a hick town, country hick.

### examples

- The city kids unkindly called him a hick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#x1)
- They grew up in a small hick town in Kansas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#x2)
- «Don't call people hicks,» said the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#x3)
- In the film, the «hick» farmer turned out to be the cleverest character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#x4)
- Hick! went my little sister when she had hiccups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/#x5)

### note

Informal and insulting; mainly American. Similar unkind words: yokel, bumpkin, redneck. Using it about a real person is rude.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.