English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪk/
- Homophone: hic
- Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology 1
From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).
Noun
hick (plural hicks)
- (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]
- Synonyms: boor, country bumpkin, churl, hillbilly, lob, redneck, rustic, yokel; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin
Derived terms
Translations
country yokel or hillbilly
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: селяндур (bg) m (seljandur)
- Catalan: taujà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 / 乡巴佬 (zh) (xiāngbalǎo)
- Czech: balík (cs) m
- Dutch: boerenkinkel (nl) m, boerenpummel (nl) m, boer (nl) m, boerenlul (nl) m
- Esperanto: kamparanaĉo
- Finnish: landepaukku (fi), maalaistollo (fi)
- French: plouc (fr) m or f
- Galician: pailán m, pailaroco m, badoco m, paduán (gl) m, laraxo m, paifoco (gl) m, fuco m, cirolán m, caloio m, códeo m, estoa m, xoubio m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Landei (de) n, Hinterwäldler (de) m
- Greek: χωριάτης (el) m (choriátis), (regional) βλάχος (el) m (vláchos)
- Hungarian: bunkó (hu), sutyerák (hu)
- Indonesian: kampungan (id)
- Irish: cábóg f, tútachán m
- Italian: buzzurro (it) m
- Japanese: いなかもん (inakamon)
- Korean: 시골뜨기 (ko) (sigoltteugi)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: petrō m
- Macedonian: се́лјак m (séljak)
- Norwegian: bondsk
- Polish: prostak (pl) m
- Portuguese: caipira (pt) m or f, labrego (pt), saloio (pt)
- Romanian: țărănoi (ro) m, țăran (ro) m
- Russian: деревенщина (ru) m (derevenščina)
- Serbo-Croatian: seljačina (sh) f
- Slovene: kmetavz m
- Spanish: paleto (es) m, palurdo (es) m, gueishpo m (El Salvador)
- Swedish: bondläpp (sv)
- Thai: ตาสีตาสา (th) (dtaa-sǐi-dtaa-sǎa)
- Vietnamese: dân quê (vi)
- Welsh: gwladwr m
- Yiddish: קליינשטעטלדיקער m (kleynshtetldiker), קליינשטעטלדיקע f (kleynshtetldike)
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Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.
Verb
hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)
- To hiccup.
Translations
References
Luxembourgish
Verb
hick
- second-person singular imperative of hicken