かっぺ ― rube

"rube"とは“田舎者”の意味です。表題に“かっぺ”と書きましたが、ある種蔑みの響きのある表現です。

この単語は、人の名前"Reuben"に由来するそうです。


A self-proclaimed online-dating rube from Queens slapped OkCupid with a lawsuit after a man he met on the singles Web site swindled him out of more than $70,000.

Hopeless romantic Michael Picciano blames OkCupid and its parent company, IAC, for failing to conduct “even minimal screening of its subscribers and therefore deceptively creating the impression that their dating service was safe . . . when in fact . . . [it] was a trap for the unwary,” he says in his Manhattan civil suit.
(Julia Marsh. Man sues OkCupid after date takes him for $70K. New York Post. March 18, 2014.)


Reubenという名前は聖書に出てくるJacobの長男とその子孫の名前でもありますが、そのことから分かるようにヘブライ系の名前です。