Someone commented on my yokel version, which for ages I have thought was the received pronunciation of the word. |
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I must have looked like a real country yokel, certainly I felt one, I felt the heat rising and my cheeks were burning with embarrassment. |
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But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger's posterior. |
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Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers. |
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It is not the forelock-tugging yokel that so many members seem to want to think is still a farm worker. |
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Related: Experience: my face was stolen online At first, Big Bird wasn't a major character, and Jim Henson, who developed the characters, said to play him like a goofy yokel from the country. |
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For all its Baudelairian modernity, there are throwbacks to an earlier time: the straw-hatted yokel in Moseley Weir, Morning looks as if he has wandered in from a Constable. |
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