A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.
From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compa...
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