Hick vs. Farmer: What's the Difference?

A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country

One who works on or operates a farm.

Provincial; unsophisticated

One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.

(pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.

A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

To hiccup.

Someone or something that farms, as:

A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

Rural. Opposite of urban.

More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.

Characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.

(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.

Not very intelligent or interested in culture

The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Awkwardly simple and provincial;

A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.

(dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).

One who farms

A person who operates a farm

United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)