patán
/paˈtan/ · B2 · noun · m
yokel
🐄 patán = pat-AN: a boor who'd pat a cow and call it 'an' honor
Sounds like 'pat' plus 'an'. Link it to someone who stomps around the farm patting cows and has no manners at a dinner table. That clumsy, unrefined country type is a patán: a yokel or boor.