bumpkinism

bumpkinism

English

Etymology

From bumpkin +‎ -ism.

Noun

bumpkinism (uncountable)

1. The fact or quality of being a bumpkin.
   • 1967, Chinese Communist Affairs, vol. 4, p. 57:

     Unavoidably the economic crisis brought about by Mao's bumpkinism rocked the Communist boat.

   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador 2014, p. 324:

     But from the point of view of Joseph II and his successors it was a purely Enlightenment project – the rescue of a benighted land from the feudal bumpkinism of Polish aristocrats.