Brewer's: Lumpkin

(Tony), in She Stoops to Conquer, by Goldsmith. A sheepish, mischievous, idle, cunning lout, “with the vices of a man and the follies of a boy;” fond of low company, but giving himself the airs of the young squire.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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