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 --
Stereotypes such as the dimwitted yokel, and potentially harmful characterizations (such as demonic possession for people with epilepsy) were prominent in social attitudes of the time.
Baum claimed that yokels would occasionally recognize him as the author of the novel, corrupting the title as they went.
Davis, however, detested his struggling but admirable family being made into comic yokels, and had nothing to do with the radio program.
The invader gratuitously left these machines around for the yokels.
Sometimes mocked as a comfortable middle-class series with stereotypical comic yokels, the programme has nonetheless tackled many serious social issues.
The excise men, thinking they were simple yokels, laughed at them and went on their way.
As a variation, the familiar image of the bearded and barefoot yokel was transformed into that of an anthropomorphic barnyard animal.
The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone.
