noun, masculine/feminine/pluk/plural: ploucs
hick, country bumpkin, yokel; rube
“Mon frère, il ne dit jamais un pavillon, il dit une maison. Il trouve que le mot pavillon, ça fait plouc.” — My brother never says pavillon [detached suburban house], he always says maison [the general word for house]. He thinks the word pavillon sounds common.
Synonyms: paysan
Borrowed from Breton plouk, from Breton ploue. First attested in c. 1880s.