Crossword clues for rube
rube
- Unsophisticated one
- Local yokel
- Country hick
- Unpolished person
- Uncultured person
- Naive sort
- Stereotypical "Hee Haw" character
- Green type
- Goldberg who drew complex "machines"
- Contraption cartoonist Goldberg
- "Hee Haw" type, stereotypically
- "Hee Haw" type
- "Hee Haw" character
- ___ Goldberg (contraption cartoonist)
- Waddell of baseball
- Uneducated sort
- Self-Operating Napkin creator Goldberg
- One who's hardly an urbanite
- Naif in the big city
- Inventive Goldberg
- Contraption designer Goldberg
- Carny's target
- Boonies denizen
- Bellicose circus cry, with "Hey."
- "Hee Haw" persona
- ''Hey __'' (carny's cry)
- ___ Goldberg machine
- Hayseed
- Hick
- Rustic one
- Bumpkin
- "Mike and Ike" creator Goldberg
- Yokel
- Country bumpkin
- Sticks figure?
- Hardly a sophisticate
- Unsophisticated sort
- "Hee Haw" character, stereotypically
- Country cousin
- Any of TV's Clampetts
- Potential sucker
- No sophisticate
- Con artist's mark
- Simpleton
- Not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Cartoonist Goldberg
- One lacking savvy
- One of the Goldbergs
- One from the sticks
- Agrestic one
- Marquard or Waddell
- Gullible one
- Unsophisticated person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, reub, from shortened form of masc. proper name Reuben (q.v.), which is attested from 1804 as a conventional type of name for a country man.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person of rural heritage; a yokel. 2 (context pejorative English) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A rube is a country bumpkin or an inexperienced, unsophisticated person.
Rube is also a nickname, often, but not necessarily of Reuben or Ruben.
Usage examples of "rube".
Beneath the shimmery surface was a dull bog in which one big-eyed carp named Warner peddled goldbricks to passing rubes.
One of their main Delights, also, was to welcome the Stranger, who thought he was sojourning among the Rubes, and lead him into the Roodle Department, the purpose being to get him out on a Limb and then saw off the Limb.
The Rube 8flips in the end, running through empty automats and subway stations, screaming: 'Come back, kid!
Then Gus, at the right time, came forward reluctantly and suspiciously, like a real Rube and not one of Charlie's comic turns, and cut the deck and chose a card: either Gus knew some sleight-of-hand herself or Willard had prepared a sharp test for me, because it was the Ace of Spades.
We were close to carfeature now, to the ridiculous contraptions of Rube Goldberg, the torture racks on which Big Pete bound Mickey Mouse, the engrenage exterieur a trois pignons, triumph of Renaissance mechanics, Branca, Ramelli, Zonca.
After helping Pitt assemble the Rube Goldberg contraption, Levant's men moved away, doubtful the drum of fuel oil could be tossed over the top of the wall without bursting inside the fort and burning everyone on the parade ground.
By the time the publisher runs major ads, books the old geezers on the morning talk shows, and intimidates the sales force with a six-figure print run, every rube in America will have heard of it, and thousands of them will buy it for the novelty value alone.
Underfoot, now and again, came vibration in the sidewalk from an SP streetlights away, beating out a Hey Rube with his night stick.
Sprawled over the leather seat was the Rube pommelling McCall with hearty good will.
As often as possible, moving about the city, Rube Prien walked, a chance for exercise.
This was it, whatever it was, and Rube Prien turned to walk beside the block-long building toward a door he could see in his mind.
When I thought of Rube Prien these days was it, I asked myself, with only a kind of mental shrug?
He looked uncomfortable, frowning a little, arrang ing his topcoat over one arm, and Rube Prien leaned forward, watching him intently.
Then, his voice very soft now, and begin ning to smile, Rube Prien said, "Oh, Doctor, Doctor: you can't quite lie, can you?
Off and on during the day I'd thought of Rube Prien, wishing I could talk to Katie about it.