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語源

Generic use of the name Rube.

発音

• enPR: ro͞ob, IPA: /ɹuːb/
• 韻: -uːb

名詞

rube (plural rubes)

1. (US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 8, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

     "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done—did. […] "

   • 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):

     You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.

2. (derogatory) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

派生語

• hey rube

アナグラム

• uber-, buer, Uber, bure, ebru, erub, Bure, Rueb, über-, Brue, uber, Reub

名詞

rube

1. Alternative form of ruby

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動詞

rube

1. Alternative form of rubben