Noun
A country bumpkin.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA cast member would play some yokel who would have some kind of bad talent, which would almost always end up with the audience booing it; throwing vegetables and the hook operator yanking said act forcibly off the stage. Source: Internet
He chastised the "degraded nonsense which country preachers are ramming and hammering into yokel skulls". Source: Internet
One commercial in this series had Enfield as a yokel refusing a Dime bar—smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside—because he preferred armadillos —smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Source: Internet
Jealous plebs moaning about your two Jags and grace and favour houses, or some yokel with a bad mullet delivering a well-aimed egg to your chops? Source: Internet
Today, unless the two leading candidates can surmount them - and the evangelical Christian wing of the party that advances them - they may be dead meat for the grinning Mr. Huckabee, the yokel who's no jokel. Source: Internet
"Yokum" was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965–1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price. Source: Internet