hick
See also: Hick
English
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /hɪk/
- Audio (Southern England) - (file) 
- Homophone: hic
- Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology 1
    
From Hick (“pet form of Richard”).
Noun
    
hick (plural hicks)
- (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]
Derived terms
    
Translations
    
country yokel or hillbilly
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Etymology 2
    
Onomatopoeic.
Verb
    
hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)
- To hiccup.
Translations
    
hiccup — see hiccup
References
    
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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