farmerlyadj.
/ˈfɑːməli/, U.S. /ˈfɑrmərli/ 1. Of, relating to, or befitting a farmer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic
churlisha1000
upland14..
rustical?a1475
ruric1488
rusticate?a1505
rural1513
upalands1535
clownish1570
rustic1582
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
swainish1642
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
Corydonical1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
farmerly1689
peasant1702
soil-bound1814
farmerish1835
farmery1862
corn-pone1919
swede-bashing1936
1689 G. Hooper Parsons Case under Present Land-tax 3 This farmerly Industry, I presume, you would rather discourage.
1807 S. Parr Let. 26 Aug. in R. Warner Literary Recoll. (1830) II. xvi. 181 I certainly shall take the liberty of telling your good lady, one or two luxuries to which I am addicted;..the third, is a plain farmerly plumb-pudding.
1839 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 19 Oct. 306/1 He was dressed in a suit of drab, with an ample coat of the good old farmerly cut.
1929 El Paso (Texas) Post 17 July (Home ed.) 10/5 Gov. R. C. Dillon is going in for the farmerly art of horse shoe pitching.
2019 Northern Echo (Nexis) 24 Mar. The photographs show proper farmerly competitions, like dragging the tractor through the High Street.
2. Of a person: resembling or characteristic of a farmer; esp. honest, plain, hard-working.
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1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 513 Some Farmerly Men..which had good reputations of affection and integrity to the King's Service.
1793 W. Jones Let. to John Bull 2 Thomas Bull is a plain farmerly man, given up to the business of his calling, and finding in it that contentment, which you great gentlemen do not always find in the higher ways of life.
1893 F. Bayford Harrison Ideal Artist iii. 93 Lady Clara..had found time hang so heavily on her hands that she had beguiled it by beguiling a young farmerly fellow of the neighbourhood into loving her.
1971 B. Willard Sprig of Broom xi. 153 He looked homespun and farmerly and cheerful.
2017 Racing Post (Nexis) 20 Feb. 6 Paul Nicholls is his usual bluff farmerly self wrapped in a jarringly green suit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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