yokelish

Updated: May 1, 2025

Even in her abandonment to exhaustion she noticed that the young man did not stare at her but, keeping his back to her, removed the tow-rope, and stowed it away in his bug. She wondered whether it was tact or yokelish indifference. Her father spoke for the first time since the Galahad of the tin bug had come: "How much do you think we ought to give this fellow?"

Sinclair Lewis - Free Air