Talk:rube

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Rube is short for Reubens. Reubens is a word that first appears in "Tramping with Tramps" by J. Flynt in 1899 to describe farmers or rural people from Iowa. Over the years the word has taken on a connotation of one who is easily duped, a sucker.

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