Rubingh includes the Dutch word rube, meaning 'peasant.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
This moronic Neugebauer rube is also a birther … …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer?] Reference
Washington had the London theater to make him feel like a slack-jawed rube from the provinces; I had cricket. From Wordnik.com. [The Father of the Pina Colada?] Reference
"Your rube is a wonder, and that's a fact," he said to me several times. From Wordnik.com. [The Redheaded Outfield] Reference
Judd, although he had been called a rube had become a great favorite and very popular at Bartlett. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
He wanted it known that he did have these connections, that he wasnt some kind of rube out there, back-bencher. From Wordnik.com. [Finding The Root Of Anti-Gay Sentiment In Uganda] Reference
And it certainly doesn't help Obama with his "rube" problem, the subtext of so much of the Vice Presidential chatter. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Motes: What a Week] Reference
I apparently inhabit some middle ground between, I don't know, "rube" and "true believer.". From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
It's called a rube is born every 4 years. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference
'rube' is surveyed by the faker who has plucked him!. From Wordnik.com. [An Anarchist Woman] Reference
"rube," you don't trail the Parker-Brodericks (pictured) down the sidewalk with a pen. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
3 hr 1 min ago, -7 / +26Oh sleekery can't stand to have to face being called the rube that he is. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Even the dumbest rube will be able to see that one. From Wordnik.com. [Obama To McCain: "You Like To Pretend Like The War Began In 2007"] Reference
Now you look even more like every other rube in town. From Wordnik.com. [Six Bad Things]
"Say, the rube can fight!" exclaimed Potts, surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
"And from now on, guys, he's just a plain rube to me!". From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
I wouldn't fly in one of those rube goldberg contraptions. From Wordnik.com. [Whoops! GOPers Attack Obama For Flying In Aircraft He Criticized -- But McCain Did Same!] Reference
The rube was so well known and such a favorite by this time. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Don't want to look like a rube even though you're new in town?. From Wordnik.com. [Byte-Sized Bite Guide] Reference
"Don't you know, you rube!" hissed McCabe, joyfully, in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
The rube had been doing the work of two men most of the quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Considering McCain's health, if I were a rube I would be excited too. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: McCain Holds Four-Point Lead In Ohio] Reference
"Here comes 'Silas Simpkins, the straw-chewing rube,'" and she giggled. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
Democrats once again see that this rube ain't ready (if he ever will be). From Wordnik.com. [Obama Camp Works To Quell Controversy Over Antigay Singer] Reference
The fellows think I'm just a rube, but I-- I appreciate a pal like Cateye. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Though superb on the Turkish street, he is something of a rube in Brussels. From Wordnik.com. [A GOOD EUROPEAN?] Reference
Bald faced, you are a rube I can say anything and you will believe it, lie. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Memo Presses The Point: He's The Real Change Agent On Foreign Policy] Reference
"Say something, quick!" whispered McCabe, who stood eyeing the rube, proudly. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Feeling increasingly like the American rube in a Henry James novel, I press him. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Of The Moment] Reference
Knapp ran straight at Judd; then as the rube dove for a tackle, he jumped clear. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
But when my hour was up and my deep tissues throbbed with contentment, I forgave the rube. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Fat Runner] Reference
You may be awkward; you may be a rube as they say; but you're a great scout just the same. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
Here's how it works: Take a not unattractive rube with a screwy family and mix in some drama. From Wordnik.com. [Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air] Reference
Palin is an inexperienced rube in your eyes, especially when compared to Biden the statesman. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
The folksy farmer-cum-pol was an adroit politician, but he was a rube in strategy and diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Khrushchev in the Land of Lincoln] Reference
And this was another achievement: he made it possible to be a conservative without being a rube. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Gerson on William F. Buckley] Reference
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