(roob.uh.FOH.bee.uh)
n.
The fear of appearing unsophisticated and uncultured. Also: rube-ophobia.
Example Citation:
I can't decide. Is good taste or chronic rube-aphobia at the
heart of the opposition to the Kansas City CowParade?
—Mike Hendricks, "How now on cows, Cowtown?," The Kansas Sity Star, July 19, 2000
—Mike Hendricks, "How now on cows, Cowtown?," The Kansas Sity Star, July 19, 2000
Earliest Citation:
Still, there is a real context for Mrs. Clinton's remarks that goes beyond Arkansas to one of the more pervasive, if little-discussed, maladies of American life: rube-aphobia.
The term, which was first bandied about in Texas in the 1980's, does not refer to fear of bumpkins and hicks, but the opposite: the fear that unless you have the approval of the media powers and taste makers in Washington, New York and to a lesser extent Los Angeles, you're treated like a bumpkin or a hick.
—Peter Applebome, "It's Not Called Arkansas for Nothing," The New York Times, August 16, 1998
Related Words:
antirube
Baracknophobia
cultural cringe
dumb up
flyover country
hillbillying
paraskevidekatriaphobia
Baracknophobia
cultural cringe
dumb up
flyover country
hillbillying
paraskevidekatriaphobia
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