dial. [f. WHOP v. (dial. ‘to make up straw into bundles’ E.D.D.) + STRAW sb.] A country bumpkin.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., lxvii. The bumptious serjeant struts before his men, And ‘clear the road, young whopstraws!’ will he say.

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1850.  ‘H. Hieover’ (C. Brindley), Pract. Horsemanship, iii. 42. ‘Here cooms a flyer; that’s the woon for moy money,’ cries some whapstraw.

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