bumpkinism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bumpkin +‎ -ism.

Noun[edit]

bumpkinism (uncountable)

  1. The fact or quality of being a bumpkin.
    • 1967, Chinese Communist Affairs, volume 4, page 57:
      Unavoidably the economic crisis brought about by Mao's bumpkinism rocked the Communist boat.
    • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 324:
      But from the point of view of Joseph II and his successors it was a purely Enlightenment project – the rescue of a benighted land from the feudal bumpkinism of Polish aristocrats.