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The opposite to BUMPKIN?
We use BUMPKIN to describe a person who is socially awkward from the countryside. What’s the word describing a person who knows nothing about nature or countryside from the city?
28 de mar. de 2021 11:33
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City slicker maybe.
You mean a negative expression used by people in the countryside?
28 de marzo de 2021
1
Over the years I have heard townie being used but not that often.
28 de marzo de 2021
1
City slicker can be negative or neutral, depending on the tone and context. Bumpkin, for its part, is normally negative. As a person who has spent much of his life in two of the 10 largest metro areas in the U.S., but is now on a work assignment in an isolated college town that’s 5 hours from the nearest (non top-10) major city, I usually call myself a “city boy”. I don’t mean “city boy” to be negative—just descriptive and maybe a little funny. That said, I tend to think that some of the country people here, who love their country lives, take it negatively....
28 de marzo de 2021
1
Around here we'd use "city boy" which is from midly condecending to insulting. For ex the ones moving to our little town or area and panic when they hear a story about a coyote or hear gun shots. Two things anyone from here won't give much thought to.
28 de marzo de 2021
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Competencias lingüísticas
Chino (mandarín), Chino (cantonés), Chino (taiwanés), Inglés, Alemán, Japonés
Idioma de aprendizaje
Inglés, Alemán
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