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Hardly a yokel
Answer for the clue "Hardly a yokel ", 8 letters:
urbanite
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area. 2 One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals. Etymology 2 n. rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1897, from urban + -ite .
Usage examples of urbanite.
I suspected that she was deliberately trying to exhaust the effete Ozarine urbanite trailing behind her.
Reiteration and circulation slowly did their work, and gradually a slim backward trickle of urbanites swelled into a vigorous refluent stream.
The thickset roan gelding could not have been mistaken by the most ignorant urbanite for a fiery steed, but Miles adored him, for his dark and liquid eye, his wide velvet nose, his phlegmatic disposition equally unappalled by rushing streams or screaming aircars, but most of all for his exquisite dressage-trained responsiveness.
Moreover, it encouraged Iraqis to feed themselves by turning to agriculture, triggering a large-scale flow of urbanites back out to the countryside.
More welcoming to artists, Free-Agers, the young bohemians, and the well-heeled urbanites who enjoyed them.
At least, not the urbanites who came from Seattle and Portland to ski.
This is particularly frustrating because your sole duty is to serve thousands of ugly urbanites hell-bent on holiday hedonism.
Also, all was not sweetness and light betwixt the other disparate elements seething in the overcrowded, underfed city—original urbanites, Vawnee villagers, Morguhnee villagers and city folk, with a leavening of out-and-out bandits from both duchies, all thieved upon and battled with each other when they were not in flight from or in combat with the few thousand loyal spear levymen and nobles' retainers who composed the only dependable troops.
I am an urbanite by birth and habit, and New York City is my home, but somewhere deep in the mix that makes up my soul, lives a beach bum looking to kick back and stretch out under the sun.
It spoke, clearly, of the gradual takeover of the disenfranchised area by the upwardly mobile young urbanite with money, energy, and time.