Meaning of yokelry | Babel Free

Definitions

A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi.

derogatory, uncountable, usually

Examples

“When the professors touch⟳ the caustic to the American yokelry for its lavish esteem of such mush as "Peg o' My Heart," do the solemn comedians not recall⟳ that the British yokelry has esteemed it no less?”

“A desire to dazzle the yokelry in the $2.75 box seats will account for a good deal⟳ of the coloring of Mr. Wylie's writing.”

“A few, perhaps, have⟳ a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show⟳ themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor.”

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