Might mean (unverified): Rural, unsophisticated people; often derogatory.
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  1. yokelry: Merriam-Webster
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▸ noun:  (derogatory) A class of rural, uneducated, or unsophisticated people; rubes; peasants; the hoi polloi.

Similar:
yokel, yokeldom, yokelism, boor, rube, hoblob, peasantry, peasant, clodhopper, hayseed, more...

Opposite:
sophistication, urbanity, cosmopolitanism

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Similar:
yokel, yokeldom, yokelism, boor, rube, hoblob, peasantry, peasant, clodhopper, hayseed, more...

Opposite:
sophistication, urbanity, cosmopolitanism



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