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A country bumpkin. One of the many terms that city slickers applied to less sophisticated rural dwellers (“rube,” “hayseed,” and “Gomer” are others). The phrase came from fruit harvesters using long sticks to dislodge the hanging crop.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Metrophanes	-	Ancient Greek
Dmytro	dmit-RO	Ukrainian
Callie	['kɔ:li]
Lilach	-	Hebrew
Gershom	GUR-shahm (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Ahmed	-	Turkish, Bosnian, Arabic, Urdu, Pashto