hick accent

Frequency: 2.50.8 per million words

A country accent, often used disapprovingly.

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Examples (20)

  • He tried to sound sophisticated, but his hick accent gave him away.
  • His hick accent immediately gave away his origins.
  • The actor adopted a convincing hick accent for his role as a rural farmer.
  • She tried to hide her hick accent when speaking to city folk.
  • She was so ashamed of her hick accent that she barely spoke in class.
  • The character in the movie had a very pronounced hick accent.
  • They immediately dismissed his ideas, assuming he was uneducated because of his hick accent.
  • Despite his hick accent, he was incredibly intelligent.
  • After moving to the city, he worked hard to lose his hick accent.
  • You can often tell where someone is from by their hick accent.
  • Despite his expensive suit, the man spoke with a thick hick accent.
  • She worried her hick accent would make her seem uneducated.
  • 'I can't stand his hick accent,' she whispered to her friend.
  • The comedian used a hick accent for many of his jokes.
  • The comedian exaggerated his hick accent to get laughs from the urban audience.
  • Learning to speak without a hick accent was a challenge for him.
  • Years of speech therapy had completely erased any trace of his original hick accent.
  • Some find a hick accent charming, while others find it a stereotype.
  • Is it really a hick accent, or just a regional dialect we're not used to?
  • His strong hick accent was a testament to his upbringing.