Nice to have nothing to do with large yokel (7)
I believe the answer is:
peasant
'yokel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
I can't explain the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for peasant that I've seen before include "rude fellow" , "Rural person of low class" , "Poor farmworker" , "Poor worker on the land" , "Poor agricultural worker" .)