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bumpkin

-1 n. கப்பலின் முன்புறத்தினின்று நீட்டிக்கொண்டிருக்கும் சிறு மரத்தூலம், படகுகளின் பின்புறத்தில் வௌதப் புறமாக நீட்டிக்கொண்டிருக்கும் புறச்சட்டம்.-2 n. நாட்டான், பாங்கறியாதவன், கோணங்கி.


Bump"kin, n. Etym: [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.] Defn: An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving. Bump"kin, n. Etym: [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.] Defn: An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.


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