or bumkin, subs. (old).—1.  The posteriors: see BUM.

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  1658.  Wit Restor’d [in NARES], 220.

        And so I take my leave; prithee sweet Thumkin,
Hold up thy coats, that I may kisse thy BUMKIN.

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  2.  (common).—A countryman; a loutish fellow; a CLODHOPPER (q.v.).

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  1692.  DRYDEN, Juvenal, iii. The country BUMPKIN the same livery wears.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BUMPKIN, a Country Fellow or Clown.

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  1705.  WARD, Works (ed. 1717), ii., 3.

        When ready we adjourned to an Alehouse…,
And there I made the BUMKIN fuddle
Till muddy ale had seized his noddle.

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  1796.  J. G. HOLMAN, Abroad and at Home, i., 1. Old Testy’s stupid BUMPKIN of a son is to be introduced to you this morning.

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  1819.  LAMB, Letter to Mr. Manning. I hate the joskins, a name for Hertfordshire BUMPKINS.

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  1861.  C. READE, The Cloister and the Hearth, lv. What with my crippledom and thy piety, a wheeling of thy poor old dad, we’ll bleed the BUMPKINS of a dacha-saltee.

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