n. [ Boom a beam + -kin. See Bumpkin. ] (Naut.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [ Written also boomkin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: “Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.” Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole. ] An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. “Bashful country bumpkins.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
(adj) awkwardly simple and provincial, Syn.unsophisticated, rustic, hick, Example: bumpkinly country boys; rustic farmers; a hick town; the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
[おのぼりさん, onoborisan] (n) countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel [Add to Longdo]
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