Bumpkin \Bump"kin\, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: ``Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.'' Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.]

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. ``Bashful country bumpkins.'' --W. Irving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)