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单词 ploughswain
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ploughswainn.

Brit. /ˈplaʊsweɪn/, U.S. /ˈplaʊˌsweɪn/
Forms: see plough n.1 and swain n.; also Middle English plowwayn (transmission error).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plough n.1, swain n.
Etymology: < plough n.1 + swain n.Apparently attested slightly earlier in the name of a street in the city of York, Ploxwangate (1241), Plouswayngate (1276), Ploxhsuaingate (13th cent.), although some have suggested that this may be independently after an (unattested) early Scandinavian parallel (although a corresponding compound is apparently not attested in any of the Scandinavian languages).
Chiefly literary. Now historical and rare.
A ploughman.Recorded earliest in ploughswain-land n. at Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman
earthlingOE
ploughman1223
earmana1250
ploughswain1296
earera1382
plougher?1518
balker1549
scratcher1557
bawker1591
plough-jogger1600
plough-jobber1667
plough woman1783
tailsman1867
1296 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 6 (MED) Tres acras terræ de plowwaynlands [read plowswaynlands].
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 1 A labor and a trauaile too plowswayns hertelye welcoom.
1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie 96 Phoebus rose from his Aurora, and began to mount him in the Skie, summoning the Plough-swaines to their handie labour.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. v. i. f. 179 He gaue command..that he should liue at a Farme of his owne in a Country Village, among his Peazants and Plough-Swaines.
1638 T. Hawkins tr. Horace Odes (ed. 4) i. iv. 6 Beasts leave their stals, plough-swaines their Fires forgo.
1797 T. Park Sonnets & Other Small Poems 61 There be which plowswaines more do prize, Then tising gaudes of courtlie life.
1907 F. W. Chandler Lit. Roguery I. v. 200 Piers is a shepherd found discoursing to Menalcas, his seventh master, and to Corydon, a plough-swain.
1960 P. H. Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-names xi. 235 Other names commemorate ancient trades:..in the thirteenth century Ploxhsuaingate ‘street of the ploughswains’.

Compounds

ploughswain-land n. Obsolete land cultivated by a ploughman.
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1296*Plowswaynlands [see main sense].
?c1357 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 558 Pro 2 plowswaynlandes in Fulwell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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