yokelry

I enjoy the notion that the Fortean and the Classical still overlap -- that 2,200 years after Hellenistic travel writers drafted that first list of Wonders, we moderns still react with the same combination of pseudoscience and slackjawed yokelry that they did, and with more condescension and less justification.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

The foreground was dotted sparsely with wretched, ill-patched shanties, among which there would flash by, now and then, a specimen of the languid yokelry of South Carolina, or else a strolling darky with sullen and bewildered eyes.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Not one of them was new and not one of them was of much pungency, but Roosevelt’s vast talent for delighting the yokelry threw about them a charming air, and so they entered into current slang and were mouthed idiotically for months.

Chapter 11. American Slang. 1. Its Origin and Nature Henry Louis 1921

The late Louis James did something of the sort; he introduced limericks into "Peer Gynt" and still held the yokelry agape.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

The foreground was dotted sparsely with wretched, ill-patched shanties, among which there would flash by, now and then, a specimen of the languid yokelry of

The Beautiful and Damned 1918

As they all wore overseas caps and claimed that they had not had time to have their gold service stripes sewed on, the yokelry of the seaboard were much impressed and asked them how they liked the trenches — to which they replied “Oh, boy! “with great smacking of tongues and shaking of heads.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

As they all wore overseas caps and claimed that they had not had time to have their gold service stripes sewed on, the yokelry of the seaboard were much impressed and asked them how they liked the trenches -- to which they replied "Oh, _boy!

The Beautiful and Damned 1918