Unsophistication

Unsophistication

See also Naïveté.

Unworldliness (See ASCETICISM.)

Uselessness (See FUTILITY.)

Adams, Parson

industrious curate; good-naturedly unsophisticated. [Br. Lit.: Joseph Andrews]

Agnès

ignorant girl; unaware of world’s and guardian’s wiles. [Fr. Lit.: L’Ecole des Femmes]

Barefoot Boy

adventures of rural boyhood. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 57]

Beverly Hillbillies

the rustication of California’s wealthy Beverly Hills. [TV: Terrace, I, 93–94]

brown ass

traditional symbol signifying lack of culture. [Animal Symbolism: Jobes, 142]

Dogpatch

town of illiterate country folk. [Comics: “Li’l Abner” in Horn, 450]

Donn, Arabella

Jude’s wife; a vulgar country girl. [Br. Lit.: Jude the Obscure]

Geese of Brother Philip

sheltered lad believes father’s explanation of girls. [Ital. Lit.: Decameron, Hall, 135]

Grand Ole Opry

country-western music performance hall and radio show; “back-country” motif. [Radio: Buxton, 100–101]

Grand Fenwick, Duchy of

minuscule backward European kingdom that “bites the world’s tail.” [Am. Lit.: The Mouse That Roared]

Green, Verdant

callow Oxford freshman; victim of practical jokes. [Br. Lit.: The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, Brewer Dictionary, 1126]

Kadiddlehopper

Clem character who epitomizes naiveness. [Radio: “The Red Skelton Show” in Buxton, 197]

Li’l Abner

naive comic strip character. [Comics: Horn, 450–451]

Miller, Daisy

her American ways caused scandal in Rome. [Am. Lit.: Daisy Miller]

Okies

Californians’ derogatory name for Oklahoma immigrants; meaning “ignorant tramps.” [Am. Lit.: The Grapes of Wrath]

Pyle, Gomer

innocent character in Marine Corps situation comedy. [TV: “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” in Terrace, I, 319]

Snerd, Mortimer

ventriloquist’s dummy personifies unsophistication. [Radio: “The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show” in Buxton, 7–77]