Timeline for What is the word for a guy who is from a village and ignorant because of it?
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| Feb 17, 2013 at 0:12 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | @Matt: Agreed – only "ignorant" about life in the city (or, as the O.P. said, "does not know much about how things work" there). I was keying off the word unsophisticated, as mentioned by Jeff and the O.P., not the word ignorant in the title of the question. | |
| Feb 16, 2013 at 23:16 | comment | added | Matt | @J.R. "Country mouse" is more of a quaint or cute way of saying "from the country". I'm not sure it has an implication of ignorance. | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 10:26 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | One could also use "country mouse," in reference to the famous fable and children's story; that metaphor does get used from time to time. | |
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| Feb 7, 2013 at 8:17 | history | edited | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2013 at 8:09 | history | answered | Jeff Allen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |