Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumpkinish
Literary usage of Bumpkinish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"From the stolid bumpkinish Jehu, who was a curiosity indeed to be found within
ten miles of London town, he had by golden means, and quite unobserved, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"... that queer something they are dancing, and how her tiny feet twinkle as she
suffers that bumpkinish fellow to lead her amid that double row of gazers! ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1894)
"He says they are so countrified and bumpkinish , ' They are very much better
mannered as well as better born than most of the girls Bob admires. ..."
4. By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing (1905)
"The common type of face at Cotrone is coarse and bumpkinish ; ruder, it seemed
to me, than faces seen at any point of my journey hitherto. ..."
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