Dictionary Definition
rube n : not very intelligent or interested in
culture [syn: yokel,
hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /ruːb/, /ru:b/
- Rhymes with: -uːb
Noun
- A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
- An unsophisticated or unintelligent person.
Quotations
Extensive Definition
Reuben or Ruben may refer to:
- Reuben sandwich
- Reuben (band), a British band
- Reuben (Bible), the first-born son of Jacob
- Reuben (Lilo & Stitch), a character in Lilo & Stitch: The Series
- Reubens, Idaho
- Reuben, a character from Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
People with the family name
surname Reuben or Reubens- David and Simon Reuben, billionaire entrepreneurs in the UK
- John Reuben, American Christian hip-hop artist
- Julie Reuben, historian interested in the role of education in American society and culture
- Paul Reubens, actor and comedian known professionally for his character Pee-wee Herman
People with the given name
A given name- Reuben Goldberg or Rube Goldberg, cartoonist and creator of Rube Goldberg devices
- Reuben James (c. 1776 - 1838), Boatswain's Mate of the United States Navy
- Ruben Alonso Rosales
- Rubén Blades
- Ruben Studdard
- Ruben Houkes (born 1979), Dutch judoka
- Ruben Vardanian
- Rubén Iván Martínez
- Ruben Cain or Robert Gibson, professional wrestler
See also
- Rubens, a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter
- Reuben Awards
- Hey, Rube!
rube in German: Reuben
rube in Hungarian: Ruben
rube in Italian: Ruben
rube in Swedish: Ruben
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
babe,
backwoodsman,
boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country
bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the
sticks, fumble-fist, gawk,
gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, redneck, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate,
up-country, yokel,
yokelish