Rube

n. (slang) - an unsophisticated country person; a yokel, a hick.

"We walked around with great big bread sticks sticking out of our pockets. They practically said, 'Hey, look at us, a couple of rubes from New Jersey.' We were probably just the kind of Americans they laugh at. But who cared? We walked around, nibbling at the tops of them, looking at everything, the Louvre, the garden of Tuileries--it was just wonderful...."

--Philip Roth, American Pastoral

The Whammer crowded the left side of the plate, gripping the heavy bat low on the neck, his hands jammed together and legs plunked evenly apart. He hadn't bothereed to take off his coat. His eye on Roy said it spied a left-handed monkey.

"Throw it, Rube, it won't get any lighter."

Though he stood about sixty feet away, he loomed up gigantic to Roy, with the wood held like a caveman's axe on his shoulder. His rocklike frame was motionless, his face impassive, unsmiling, dark.

--Bernard Malamud, The Natural