0 a stupid or awkward person who lives in the countryside rather than a town, especially one whose appearance is in some way strange or humorous:
1 a person who lives in an area far from cities, is not familiar with city ways, and is therefore considered slightly stupid
The recent police planned holiday routes had one major effect in that we local yokels can no longer get about in the lanes which heretofore have been our summer lifelines.
He chastised the degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls.
According to a local legend, customs officials had come across some yokels raking a pond to retrieve some kegs of alcohol.
He usually portrayed country yokels or simpletons with great gusto and popularity, but he was ambitious to begin a career as a director.
The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone.
As a variation, the familiar image of the bearded and barefoot yokel was transformed into that of an anthropomorphic barnyard animal.
The excise men, thinking they were simple yokels, laughed at them and went on their way.
Sometimes mocked as a comfortable middle-class series with stereotypical comic yokels, the programme has nonetheless tackled many serious social issues.
