peasantlyadj.
/ˈpɛzntli/, U.S. /ˈpɛz(ə)n(t)li/ Of, relating to, or characteristic of peasants.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective]
churlisha1000
ruric1488
rural1513
rusticalc1525
peasant1550
peasantly1569
clownish1570
rustic1576
shepherdly1579
russet1598
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
high-shoon1654
Corydonical1656
high-shod1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
russet-coated1683
one-gallus1881
one-gallused1887
red-necked1896
rube1898
takhaar1899
backwoodsya1910
swede-bashing1936
backwoodish1946
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. ix. 52 To pray and require suche paysauntlie slaues [Fr. telz paysans] of passage and recourse.
1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. S jv Vertue makes Nobility, for, there are noble Peasants, and peasantly Nobles.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coteret,..a kind of peasantlie weapon vsed in old time.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 72 An opinion that it is a mean and peasantly thing for a Gentleman to give himself the trouble of looking after his fortune.
1698 J. Collier Short View Immorality Eng. Stage v. 222 This peasantly expression [sc. Sack-wine] agrees neither with the Gentlemans Figure, nor with the rest of his Behaviour.
1823 W. Scott Peveril (1855) iv. 345 I would cudgel their psalmody out of their peasantly throats with this very truncheon.
a1834 C. Lamb Cupid's Revenge in Eliana (1865) 363 There stood before him a seeming youth.., clad in coarse and peasantly attire.
1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 29 May ii. 7/2 Vlad Polyakov shows peasantly bow to approving instructor Karla Draka.
1995 New Musical Express 28 Oct. 29/2 The Astoria on Charing Cross Road, W1, was the scene for Saint Etienne's first gig with Sarah.., all for a peasantly sum of £50.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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