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say it: hik
hick is a noun and adjective meaning "a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture". It carries 2 recorded senses.
awkwardly simple and provincial
“bumpkinly country boys”
“rustic farmers”
“a hick town”
“the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.