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yokelries

yokelries is the plural of yokelry.

Meaning of yokelry

Noun

yokelry (usually uncountable, plural yokelries)

  1. (derogatory, usually) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi.
    • When the professors touch the caustic to the American yokelry for its lavish esteem of such mush as "Peg o' My Heart," do the solemn comedians not recall that the British yokelry has esteemed it no less?1918, George Jean Nathan, The Popular Theatre, page 61

Questions about yokelries

What is yokelries the plural of?
Yokelries is the plural of yokelry.

Words near yokelries in the dictionary

  1. yokelets
  2. yokelish
  3. yokelishness
  4. yokelism
  5. yokelisms
  6. yokelries
  7. yokelry
  8. yokels
  9. yokemate
  10. yokemated
  11. yokemates

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