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Definition: Hick |
HickAdjective1. (informal) rural and uncouth; "hick ideas". 2. Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists". Noun1. Not very intelligent or interested in culture. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Ukrainian (zhlob). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | HICK. A country hick; an ignorant clown. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: HickSynonyms: bumpkinly (adj), rustic (adj), unsophisticated (adj), bumpkin (n), chawbacon (n), hayseed (n), rube (n), yahoo (n), yokel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hick |
| English words defined with "hick": bumpkinly ♦ rustic ♦ unsophisticated. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hick": DUB O' TH' HICK. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You dumb stubborn redneck hick. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) You're just an ignorant, inbred, tumbleweed hick. (U Turn; writing credit: John Ridley) He's not your son, you deluded hick. He's not even human (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Hypnotic Hick (1953) A Hick a Slick and a Chick (1948) The Hick Chick (1946) A Hickory Hick (1923) The Hick (1921) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hick Carpenter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.65% of the time. "Hick" is used about 204 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 92.65% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.37% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.98% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 204 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hick" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hick | Last name | 1,000 | 16,501 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "hick": hick town. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hick": Terrif-hick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bill hick | 402 | edward hick | 19 |
braxton hick | 321 | michele hick | 19 |
braxton hick contraction | 253 | tyler hick | 18 |
jo hick | 192 | tom hick | 18 |
catherine hick | 185 | hick ups | 14 |
hick | 123 | hick joke | 13 |
taral hick | 111 | hick muse tate | 13 |
abraham hick | 101 | hick lake | 12 |
dan hick | 59 | wilson hick | 12 |
john hick | 40 | hick walt | 11 |
hick beach | 39 | baseball camp hick tom | 11 |
hick nursery | 37 | tyler g hick | 10 |
hick muse | 32 | hick morley | 10 |
bill hick quote | 32 | hick india | 10 |
hick yew | 29 | hick j stephen | 10 |
hick muse tate and furst | 26 | atwell hick | 10 |
nude catherine hick | 24 | catherine hick picture | 10 |
d atra hick | 23 | michael hick | 9 |
stephen hick | 22 | karen hick | 9 |
david hick | 20 | scott hick | 9 |
esther hick | 9 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Njeri I Thjeshtë (commoner), Katundar (villager), I Thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), I Pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, rough, uncouth, unhewn), Bujk (agriculturist, cropper, farmer, hayseed, husbandman, tiller). (various references) | |
Arabic | شخص ريفى أخرق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Провинциален, Провинциалист, Селски, Селяк (Hodge, Kern). (various references) | |
Czech | Křupan (yokel), Balík (block, bumpkin, bundle, pack, package, packet). (various references) | |
Farsi | نفهم (Incapable, Stupid), احمق (Asinine, Cockeyed, Cockscomb, Daft, Dense, Dopey, Dult, Fool, Gawky, Gosling, Inane, Loggerhead, Loony, Natural, Nincompoop, Noodle, Sawney, Senseless, Simpleton, Sot, Spoony, Stupid, Sucker, Unmeaning). (various references) | |
French | Péquenaud, Bouseux. (various references) | |
German | Tölpel (booby, dolt, fool, gannet, gawk, jay, muddler, rube, slob, yokel). (various references) | |
Greek | χωριάτησ (boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, countryman, rube, rustic, villager, yokel), Αγροίκοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mucsai (bushwhacker, hayseed, hillbilly, jay, jerkwater), falusi (hayseed, landward, rural, villager, yokel), vidéki (country cousin, down-home, landward, out of town, provincial, rural). (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang dusun (backwoodsman, lout). (various references) | |
Italian | Hickory (hickory), Zotico (boorish, churl, coarse, loutish, lubberly, rough, roughly, rudely, unsubtle), balordo (foolish, oafish, slob, stupid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "舎者 (bumpkin, clown, person from the country, provincial person), "夫野人 (boor, rustic), いなか者 (bumpkin, clown, person from the country, provincial person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | で"ぷやじ" (boor, rustic), いなかもの (bumpkin, clown, person from the country, provincial person). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rstico (hawbuck, hind, homely, ill-mannered), roceiro, lavrador (builder, farmer, husbandman, peasant, ploughman, tiller), jeca (country bumpkin), campons (hawbuck, hind, hobnail), caipira (backsetter, countrified, country bumpkin, hayseed, yokel). (various references) | |
Russian | Провинциал, "еревенщина (Swain), Икота, Икать, провинциал провинциальный (provincial). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | seljak (bucolic, bumpkin, farmer, hodge, peasant, villager, villein), seljačina (bumpkin, country cousin, hayseed, yokel), gedža (boor, peasant). (various references) | |
Spanish | Rústico (backwoods, churlish, clownish, countrified, rural, rustic, sylvan, yokel), porro (joint, reefer, slob), Palurdo (boor, bumpkin, hayseed, mannerless, peasant, rube, yokel), Paleto (bumpkin, gawky, hayseed, peasant), De Aldea (village). (various references) | |
Swedish | Lantlig (predial, provincial, rural, rustic), Lantis (hillbilly, peasant), Bondlurk (bumpkin, hayseed, Jake, yokel). (various references) | |
Turkish | Hödük (boor, boorish, bumpkin, churl, clodhopper, clown, clumsy, country bumpkin, dry stick, dull stick, hayseed, lubber, oaf, roughneck, rube, ruffian, rustic, stick, yob, yokel), Taşralı (backwoodsman, countryman, provincial, rustic, upcountry), Köylü (corydon, countrified, country folk, countryman, grass roots, hayseed, Kern, kerne, peasant, ploughman, plowman, provincial, rube, rustic, villager, yokel). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Провінційний, Провінціал, Закутний, "икавка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dân tỉnh nhỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hick": hickey, hickeys, hickies, hickish, hickories, hickory, hicks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hick": boychick, chick, dabchick, superthick, thick. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hick": boychicks, chickadee, chickadees, chickaree, chickarees, chickee, chickees, chicken, chickened, chickenhearted, chickening, chickenpox, chickenpoxes, chickens, chickories, chickory, chickpea, chickpeas, chicks, chickweed, chickweeds, dabchicks, doohickey, doohickeys, doohickies, shicker, shickers, shicksa, shicksas, thicken, thickened, thickener, thickeners, thickening, thickenings, thickens, thicker, thickest, thicket, thicketed, thickets, thickety, thickhead, thickheaded, thickheads, thickish, thickly, thickness, thicknesses, thicks, thickset. (additional references) | |
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"Hick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhikku, Haca, Haccp, hackt, hacky, haic, hbcu, hci, Hecq, heik, Hgca, hicc, hice, hicke, Hickie, Hickl, Hicky, hics, hict, hicy, hiek, hik, hikki, hiku, Hink, hirk, hix, Hmci, hocka, hocko, hoic, hoick, Huckg, Hyuk, ick, nhic, Uicc, yick, zick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hick" (pronounced hi"k) |
| 2 | -i" k | brick, chick, click, Crick, Dick, flick, handpick, kick, lick, Mick, Nick, nonstick, pic, pick, prick, quick, realpolitik, Rick, schtick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, spic, stick, Strick, thick, tic, tick, trick, Wick. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-k" | |
-1 letter: chi, hic, ich, ick, khi. | |
-2 letters: hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-k" | |
+1 letter: chick, chink, chirk, hicks, hoick, thick. | |
+2 letters: chicks, chinks, chinky, chirks, hackie, hickey, hijack, hoicks, kimchi, kirsch, kitsch, schrik, schtik, shtick, thicks. | |
+3 letters: boychik, buckish, chewink, chibouk, chickee, chicken, chinked, chinook, chirked, chirker, chokier, choking, cockish, hackies, hacking, halakic, hayrick, hickeys, hickies, hickish, hickory, hijacks, hillock, hocking, hoicked, kachina, kimchee, kimchis, kitchen, kitschy, peckish, puckish, ricksha, schriks, schtick, schtiks, shicker, shicksa, shticks, sickish, thicken, thicker, thicket, thickly, whicker. | |
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