Hick vs. Farmer: What's the Difference?
Hick and Farmer Definitions
Hick
A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country
"New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" (Louis Auchincloss).
Farmer
One who works on or operates a farm.
Hick
Provincial; unsophisticated
A hick town.
Farmer
One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
Hick
(pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
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Farmer
A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
Hick
To hiccup.
Farmer
Someone or something that farms, as:
Hick
A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.
Farmer
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.
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Hick
Rural. Opposite of urban.
Farmer
More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
Hick
Characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.
Farmer
(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
A farmer of the revenues
Hick
Not very intelligent or interested in culture
Farmer
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
Hick
Awkwardly simple and provincial;
Bumpkinly country boys
Rustic farmers
A hick town
The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
Farmer
A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
Farmer
(dated) A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Farmer
One who farms
Farmer
A person who operates a farm
Farmer
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
Farmer
An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)
