dial. [f. WHOP v. (dial. ‘to make up straw into bundles’ E.D.D.) + STRAW sb.] A country bumpkin.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., lxvii. The bumptious serjeant struts before his men, And ‘clear the road, young whopstraws!’ will he say.
1850. ‘H. Hieover’ (C. Brindley), Pract. Horsemanship, iii. 42. ‘Here cooms a flyer; that’s the woon for moy money,’ cries some whapstraw.
