rusticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrʌstɪk/, U.S.

/ˈrəstɪk/

Forms: late Middle English rustyk, 1500s rustyke, 1500s–1600s rusticke, 1500s–1600s rustik, 1500s–1600s rustike, 1500s–1600s rustique, 1500s–1700s rustick, 1500s– rustic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rustique; Latin rūsticus.

Etymology: < Middle French, French rustique of or belonging to the countryside or to rural life, rural (1355), that shows a lack of refinement, crude, coarse (1355), ignorant, foolish (early 15th cent.), that lives in the countryside (1558), (of a work of art) that imitates nature (1563), (of masonry) rough-hewn (1567), belonging to the rustic order of architecture (1676), made with a simplicity that suggests the life of the countryside (1720), (as noun) person living in the countryside (1451), rustic order of architecture (1582; 1549 in à la rustique ) and its etymon classical Latin rūsticus (adjective) of or suited to a farm or its cultivation, of, belonging to, or connected with the country, rural, (of animals and plants) occurring naturally or in the wild, living in the country, practising country pursuits, (of language or accent) typical of or sounding like a person who lives in the countryside, lacking the elegance or refinement of the town, crude, clumsy, having a country person's lack of refinement, uncouth, coarse, lacking a town person's worldly wisdom, naive, simple-minded, unsophisticated, provincial, (noun) person living in the countryside, peasant < rūs country (see rural adj.) + -ticus , ultimately < ancient Greek -τικος , suffix forming adjectives from verbs (compare -ic suffix), after other Latin adjectives in -ticus , e.g. exōticus exotic adj. Compare Old Occitan rustic (c1420), Italian rustico (1353; found in a similar range of senses; mid 16th cent. designating an order of architecture). Compare rustical adj.See note at rural adj. on the historical development of the semantic relationship between rustic and rural.

A. adj.

a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside (as opposed to the town); rural.Now less common than rural in the same sense.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]

fieldena1425

rustic?1440

citylessc1450

champestrea1492

rural?a1500

rustical1542

agrestc1550

predial1592

champestrial1612

agrestic1617

agrestical1623

agrested1650

upland1654

countrified1756

agrestian1812

country1827

mofussil1828

agrestial1840

landward1844

bucolic1846

out-country1939

land-bound1972

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1027 (MED) Of tyme is wex and hony maad swettest..and aftir hem is best Of rosemary and sauery; thenne is noon So good as they but rustyk [L. rustici] swete vchoon.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 The maist anciant nobilis..detestit vrbanite and desirit to..laubir rustic ocupation on the hoilsum feildis.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 127 The whole life rustike is hurtless, simple, and most of all framed to the true order of Nature.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 84 Of that kind Our rusticke Gardens barren.

1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 138 All the Sea-born Nereids implore Quick to return thee to our Rustick shore.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1330 Sottish drinking,..rustic sports, such as fox-chases, horse-races, etc.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 104 I think it is of vast consequence both to the farmer and the public to extend the use of oxen for all rustic business.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 23 Something like this..must be the prevalent notion of Snow Hill in those remote and rustic parts.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 306 Stud and teer, a rustic mode of building a wall with interwoven sticks instead of lath.

1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 657 The oldest rustic festival here [sc. in Lothian] is the harvest home, or ‘kirn’.

1908 Mod. Philol. 6 33 A pastourelle is a simple poem set in a rustic scene.

1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Feb. 78/4 In the first version [of The Countess Kathleen]..there is a naive elaboration, in which ‘sheogues’, ‘tevishies’, ‘sowlths’, and other rustic spirits appear.

1990 J. Fane Best Friends 2 I shook the dust of the metropolis from my feet, and was doubtless relieved to resume my rustic pursuits.

b. In the names of plants and animals.With rustic moth compare sense B. 1c.

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 85 Bacchar is named by some Rustick-Nard.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 63 Woodcocks... Some iudge them to approch somewhat neere vnto the nature of the Partridge, and therefore is of them called the rusticke Partridge.

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 448 Rustic Rat, Mus Agrarius.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 71 The Rustic Shoulder Knot..appears the beginning of June.

1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 344 It..is destitute of the lance-shaped spot on the fore wings; and hence I have named it Agrotis inermis, the unarmed rustic-moth.

1913 J. E. Rogers Shell Bk. lxxii. 286 The Rustic Amber Snail (S. rustica, Gld.), with a greenish, horn-coloured, rough, lustreless shell, is fragile like the rest.

1981 Irish Naturalist's Jrnl. 20 299 This species is known as the rustic borer... It is one of the commonest Cerambycidae in the Eastern United States.

a. Having the appearance or manners of a country person; esp. (depreciative) lacking in elegance, refinement, or education; boorish; ignorant. Now rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2b.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]

rudea1382

roida1400

borel1513

rustical?1532

illiberal1535

waste?1541

rusticc1550

illiterate1556

ruggedc1565

profane1568

unskilful1572

raw?1573

clownish1581

home-born1589

rough-hewn1593

unpolished1594

artless1598

home-bred1602

unbevelled1602

incult1628

museless1644

uncultivated1646

incultivateda1657

uncultivate1659

incultivate1661

unpolite1674

uncult1675

repent1684

uncultivated1725

uncultured1777

unenlightened1792

cultureless1824

sloven1856

philistinic1869

undoctrined1869

Philistine1871

Philistinish1871

roughneck1906

lowbrow1907

low-level1916

no-brow1922

bohunk1957

bakya1960

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined

boistousc1300

untheweda1325

uplandisha1387

unaffiled1390

rudea1393

knavishc1405

peoplisha1425

clubbedc1440

blunt1477

lob?1507

robust1511

borel1513

carterly1519

clubbish1530

rough?1531

rustical?1532

incondite1539

agrestc1550

rusticc1550

brute1555

lobcocka1556

loutisha1556

carterlike1561

boorish1562

ruggedc1565

lobbish1567

loutlike1567

sowish1570

clownish1581

unrefined1582

impolished1583

homespun1590

transalpinea1592

swaddish1593

unpolished1594

untutored1595

swabberly1596

tartarous1602

porterly1603

lobcocked1606

lob-like1606

cluster-fisted1611

agrestic1617

inurbane1623

unelevated1627

incult1628

unbrushed1640

vulgar1643

unhewed1644

unsmooth1648

hirsute1658

loutardly1658

unhewn1659

roughsome?c1660

sordid1668

inhumanea1680

coarse1699

brutal1709

ramgunshoch1721

tramontane1740

uncouth1740

no-nationa1756

unurbane1760

turnipy1792

rudas1802

common1804

cubbish1819

clodhopping1828

vulgarian1833

cloddish1844

unkempt1846

bush1851

vulgarish1860

rodney1866

crude1876

ignorant1886

yobby1910

nekulturny1932

oikish1959

yobbish1966

ocker1972

down and dirty1977

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined > specifically of persons

uplandisha1387

rustyc1485

rustical?1532

gross?1533

rusticc1550

rough-hewn1591

unfashioned1606

unpolite1674

crude1722

uncouth1732

piggish1742

rough-spun1768

coarse-graineda1774

coarse-fibred1872

rough as guts1919

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 49 Ane rustic pastour of bestialite, distitut of vrbanite and of speculatione of natural philosophe.

1574 R. Robinson Rewarde of Wickednesse sig. O2 The sonnes of Theeues & rustick Carles, might leade me as they list.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. Proem sig. Bb4^v But let that same delitious Poet lend A little leaue vnto a rusticke Muse To sing his mistresse prayse.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 I am not altogether so rustick, and nothing so irreligious.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 72/1 A Rustick Fellow, one without City or School breeding, without cleanliness, and of a slovenly Speech.

a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) II. vii. 53 G. Croese, who writ the pretended history of the Quakers, calls him a rustick fellow.

1743 H. Walpole Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 340 You see how rustic I am grown again!

1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church iv. 173 I Patrick a sinner, the most rustic, and the least of all the faithful.

1932 E. Bowen To North (1961) xi. 114 Contriving to look as appealingly rustic in London as she had looked exotic at Farraways, Gera wore a large chip straw hat and frilly frock.

1987 M. Das Cyclones xiv. 64 Sudhir, you are rustic beyond redemption. Couldn't you send a small message? I could have received you at the bus-stop!

b. Of a person: living in the countryside as opposed to the town; of a peasant or agricultural background.With quot. 1601 cf. rustic tribe n. at Compounds 1.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting the country

upland14..

ruralc1425

rustical?a1475

ruric1488

upalands1535

uplands1570

rustic1582

rusticated1757

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

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. N.ij This rustick multitude, caryed seconde Saint Fraunces vnto his Tumbe.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 10 The Romaines highly prized the rusticke diuision [It. le Tribu rustiche] for their numbers and prouision.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 19 It is most meete for rusticke labourers.

1658 H. W. tr. E. de Refuge Accomplish'd Courtier (1660) xxxix. 134 The Peasants and Rustick people..at last devoure and eat up those swine, which they have formerly cramm'd and fatted.

1751 T. Gray Elegy xxi. 9 And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to dye.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 708 Assembling..The rustic throng beneath his fav'rite beech.

1817 G. Young Hist. Whitby II. 880 A procession of rustic youths dragging a plough, who, as they officiate for oxen, are called plough-stots.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 596 If Beaufort and his rustic followers could be overpowered before the regular troops arrived.

1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 295 We are only rustic people.

1901 Shooting Times 22 June 21/2 The eel is plentiful, and many rustic anglers go forth to catch him with rod and line.

1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 101 Until close on the end of the nineteenth century, the rustic population of England had an art of its own..: songs and dances, seasonal feasts and dramas and pageantry.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 14/1 A British journalist..had found (or, as likely, invented) a rustic ‘kelper’ in the Falklands.

c. Physically robust; hardy; (of health) vigorous, rude. Cf. rustical adj. 4b.

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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > resistant to disease, etc.

strongeOE

stalworthc1175

starka1250

stiff1297

stalworthyc1300

vigorousc1330

stoura1350

lustyc1374

marrowya1382

sturdyc1386

crank1398

robust1490

vigorious1502

stalwart1508

hardy1548

robustious1548

of force1577

rustical1583

marrowed1612

rustic1620

robustic1652

solid1741

refractory1843

salted1864

resistant1876

saulteda1879

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > robust

strongeOE

hardOE

stalworthc1175

starka1250

stiff1297

steel to the (very) backa1300

stalworthyc1300

wightc1300

stable13..

valiant1303

stithc1325

toughc1330

wrast1338

stoura1350

sadc1384

wighty14..

derfc1440

substantialc1460

well-jointed1483

felon1487

robust1490

stalwart1508

stoutya1529

robustous?1531

rankc1540

hardy1548

robustious1548

stout1576

rustical1583

rustic1620

iron1638

robustic1652

swankinga1704

strapping1707

rugged1731

solid1741

vaudy1793

flaithulach1829

ironbark1833

swankie1838

tough as (old) boots or leather1843

skookum1847

hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862

hard-assed1954

nails1974

1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 50 They are tough, of a very hard concoction, and breed an euill and melancholike iuyce; yet they are good enough for robustious and rusticke bodies.

1643 tr. Hildanus' Exper. Chyrurg. ii. 4 Those of a hard and rustique flesh, and which are strong men, require more stronger Remedies.

1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vi. 42 That Remedy which is but mildly Detersive in some rustic Bodies, will be found a Catheretic in young Infants and Children.

1790 M. A. Radcliffe tr. Wocklow Radzivil II. 99 What image..can suffice to portray glowing youth and almost rustic health?

a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 65 A disabled soldier, begging his way home from the field, which..he had sought in the full vigor of rustic health he was never to know again.

1868 E. R. Mudge & J. L. Hayes Rep. Wool & Manuf. Wool i. 12 The new merino..is more rustic and hardy than the foreign races.

1906 Monthly Rev. 150 Jeanne, conscious of her own rustic strength and ruddy health, felt very sorry for the Duke.

1995 B. L. Hendricks Internat. Encycl. Horse Breeds 78/2 Since 1900 the breeding of Bosnian horses has been selective and controlled and the rustic, hardy qualities of this small horse have been preserved.

a. Architecture. Of masonry: characterized by a surface which is artificially roughened or left rough-hewn, or by having the joints (esp. the horizontal ones) deeply sunk or chamfered; (also) designating such a joint or surface. Also: of, relating to, or designating the Tuscan order of classical architecture (see Tuscan adj. c).

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] > made or built of stone > in specific way

rustic1563

rusticated1730

axed1813

rock-worked1818

Pelasgic1831

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders

composite1563

Italic1563

Tuscan1563

Ionic?1566

compositive1601

Tuscanic1601

Doric1614

Ionical1624

Italian1624

Roman1624

compoundeda1639

compound ordera1639

Corinthiac1638

Corinthian1656

rustic1663

composed1728

1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Eiiii^v Rusticke or Rughe hewed stone.

?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 83^v Marforius. Of what worke was it made? Pasquine. Neyther of Dorique, nor Ionique, Corinthian, nor Rustique, nor of no Compounde, but of a worke Diabolique.

1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2 On the rustick frontispice lay two great figures in Rileue, which seemed to beare vp a Garland of Sea-weeds.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 29 The Tuscan, Column, or Rustick, Base and Capital.

a1706 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. (1707) 42 Tuscan, Rustic, or by whatever name dignified, or disgrac'd.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 400 The Work is rustic, made with Knobs or Protuberances..without being smoothed.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 11 The present structure [is made] of brick, strengthened by rustic quoins of stone at the corners.

1826 Mirror of Lit. 4 Mar. 135/1 On account of its strong and massive proportions it [sc. the Tuscan order] is called the rustic order.

1876 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. (new ed.) III. 2007/2 Laid alternately stretcher and header with rustic joints.

1901 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 3/1 The encircling wall of the city, of perfectly jointed stone work, yet each block with a ‘rustic’ surface.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 843/1 Texture brick, a rustic brick.

1983 J. S. Ackerman in Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 42 15 (title) The Tuscan/Rustic order: a study in the metaphorical language of architecture.

2002 J. Dunford & J. Holland Rough Guide N.Y. City 242 The house is unfortunately disfigured by aluminum windows and a modern rustic facing.

b. Of or characteristic of rural workmanship; of a rough, plain, or simple form or style; esp. made of undressed branches or roots of trees.

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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill > not elaborately made

rustic1600

uncurious1605

incurious1615

rural1624

inelaborate1650

bush1851

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > dressed > not > made of undressed wood

rustic1600

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iii Heele finde if one prooue false vnto his wife, Onely with Oxe blood, and a rustic knife.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 433 Ith' midst an Altar as the Land-mark stood Rustic, of grassie sord.

1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 89 Three rustick arches, set off with ivy, moss, icicles, and all the rocky appurtenances.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 267 Descending now..upon a rustic bridge We pass a gulph.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 32 The gentleman and lady continued to advance, directing their course to a rustic seat.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District 30 Two rustic bridges span the chasm.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 115/1 The ardent fisherman could build an old mill with a spill-way and water wheel—and with a rustic dock jutting out over the base.

1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 160 Red-cushioned country chairs around the close-set dark elm rustic tables.

2006 Lancs. Life Feb. 197/2 Contour round the protective rustic fence and bear left up the hillside.

c. Palaeography. Also with capital initial. Of lettering: freely or irregularly formed; spec. designating one of the two styles of lettering used in early Latin manuscripts (opposed to square).

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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > others

bastard1524

secretary1571

Gothical1612

Gothicc1660

Longobardic1677

Lombardic1697

Langobardic1724

longhand1729

rustic1768

Lombard1833

Carlovingian1853

mogigraphic1857

Carolingian1881

Beneventan1882

hand-printed1882

insular1908

script1920

1768 P. Thicknesse Useful Hints Tour of France xxxi. 265 In front of the cap, in rustic letters, was G. R. and over it Zulestein.

1784 T. Astle Origin & Progress Writing 79 The Rustic capitals were bold, negligent, unequal, composed of strokes, generally oblique, sometimes extravagant, and always inelegant.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 4/2 Vaguely formed ‘rustic’ or other free-hand letters are in bad taste on such drawings.

1876 W. De G. Birch Hist., Art & Palaeogr. of MS styled Utrecht Psalter iv. 165 The particular kind of Rustic lettering adopted by the scribe of the Utrecht Psalter undoubtedly betrays a certain debility of formation not seen in the Rustic hands of the Vatican Virgils.

1900 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 4 152 Distinguish between rustic and square capitals.

1975 Classical Rev. 25 297 The first..is an unusual piece–a large sheet with part of a dedication to Diocletian and Maximian written in rustic capitals with a soft reed or brush.

1995 J. Barrett & J. Iredale Discovering Old Handwriting ii. 25 In practice, rustic lettering was employed as the formal book hand of the Roman empire.

a. Characteristic or typical of country people.Often coloured by either sense A. 4b or sense A. 4c.

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1567 G. Turberville in tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v I do not mystrust but Mantuans Shephierds will vse the matter with such dyscretion, and so set their rusticke Pipes in tune, as you will rather commend their melodie, than myslike their audacitie.

1590 E. Spenser Let. to Sir W. Raleigh in Faerie Queene 604 Why doe I send this rusticke Madrigale, That may thy tunefull eare vnseason quite?

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 175 Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie.

1637 J. Milton Comus 29 For which the shepheards at their festivalls Carroll her goodnesse lowd in rusticke layes.

a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 44 Lay Bashfulness, that rustick Virtue, by.

1788 Trifler xviii. 245 The country 'squires dreaded the exposition of their rustic conversation to the ordeal of her criticism.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iv. 426 The rustic customs of the Afghauns are also in a great measure laid aside.

1887 M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin Wanted II. xvii. 221 Without any apprenticeship to the sublime art of scribbledom, she could write sweet, unalloyed, rustic English.

1932 C. Brooks Jrnl. 9 May (1998) 33 They conduct a kind of rustic wooing and harlotry in the popular cafes.

1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxvii. 148 Her cheeks looked hollowed and too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features.

2006 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 33/3 Musicians in rustic dress come into the main squares to play plangent melodies on the piffero and zampogna—shawm and bagpipe.

b. depreciative. Unrefined, vulgar; rough; crude.

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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

1576 G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard ii. 91 Allotting to her harmelesse tongue, All rusticke speach, with Stentors voice.

1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 77 Fabius..as famous for his rusticke and vnciuile life, as now he is woondred at for his braue and courtly behauiour.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. viii. 20 Sores are not to bee anguish't with a rusticke pressure.

1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices i. 126 I doe not approve..of unmannerly and rusticke behaviour.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 199 That rustic contempt of the fair sex, which James affected.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 457 This is fulsome; and offends me more Than..rustic coarseness would.

1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxx. 380 The rustic air and uncombed locks of these Scandinavian warriors.

1892 Youth's Compan. 16 June 307/1 Generally the tally-ho party meeting us would observe our rustic equipage with wonder for a moment.

1919 Atlantic Monthly June 785/2 The rustic half-domesticated nature of rural England.

2008 United News of Bangladesh (Nexis) 14 Mar. The refined repartee of the people of Lucknow made other people's speech sound rustic; their polished manners made those of others appear oafish.

c. Plain and simple; unsophisticated; having the charm of the countryside.

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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > homely or rustic

homelya1387

uplandisha1387

hamald?a1400

rustical1483

agrestc1550

fustianc1550

homespun1590

russet1598

agrestic1617

raplocha1628

Adamitic1656

russet-coated1683

rustic1738

turnipy1792

countrified1875

corny1932

bakya1960

1738 S. Johnson London 79 [My] rustick tongue Ne'er knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong.

1798 W. Wordsworth We are Seven in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 110 She had a rustic, woodland air.

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 49 The rustic grace and sweetness of The May Queen.

1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 4 Another use of words may be forced upon us by a new aspect of facts, so that we may find ourselves saying: ‘Such and such a person is very gentle and kind—he is quite rustic’.

1917 C. L. Skinner Good Morning, Rosamond! iii. 25 You took me as if I were a—a—bunch of wild flowers, to give just the right contrasting touch of rustic simplicity.

1988 N.Y. Mag. 9 May 53/2 Robuchon, a country lad from the Loire, was an early crusader for the cause of rustic cooking, elevating pig's head to sainthood and reviving the glory of mashed potatoes.

1999 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 1 Apr. l1 The brick and wooden plank outwalls meant to give the restaurant its rustic Western look remained intact.

B. n.

a. A person living in the countryside; a peasant. Now frequently in historical or literary contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant

tillman940

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bondc1275

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Jack (John) Upland1402

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John Uponlanda1568

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Phillis1589

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carlota1616

swainling1615

raiyat1625

contadino1630

under-swaina1644

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Bonhomme1660

high-shoon-man1664

countrywoman1679

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russet gown1694

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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

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun]

countrymanc1300

landmana1400

Jack (John) Upland1402

rurala1475

rustical?1532

rusticc1550

Jock upalanda1568

John Uponlanda1568

rustican1570

countrywoman1679

country cousin1692

ruralist1739

country mouse1750

backwoodsman1774

back-countryman1796

mountaineer1837

ruralite1841

mountain man1847

smock-frock1858

way back1890

woop woop1936

swamp Yankee1941

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]

churlc1275

Hobc1325

Hodgec1386

charla1400

carlc1405

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rustical?1532

boor1548

rusticc1550

kern1556

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Jocka1568

John Uponlanda1568

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Corydon1581

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Bonhomme1660

high-shoon-man1664

cot1695

ruralist1739

Johnnya1774

Harry1796

bodach1830

bucolic1862

cafone1872

bogman1891

country bookie1904

desi1907

middle peasant1929

woodchuck1931

swede-basher1943

moegoe1953

shit-kicker1961

c1550 in J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford (1804) I. 339 There are other markett-townes..wherein are both natives and rusticks of auncient tyme.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. ii. 71 b The figure following..is of the Azamoglan Rustique.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 715 How now (Rustiques) whither are you bound?

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 173 Your Rustics and Handicraft-men never pare their Nails.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 178 In how many countrey affairs must the scholar take the rustic for his master?

?1793 S. T. Coleridge Lines Beautiful Spring 18 The rustic..Whistling lorn ditties leans upon his crook.

1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 268 The polite public might think it strange and half unwarrantable that he..should do such honour to a rustic.

1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd I. i. 3 The Kentish rustics know very little of this City banking-house.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 8/3 Fortunately for the poor rustics, the village elemental is usually a creature of modest tastes.

1960 W. H. Auden Homage to Clio 28 Rustics in a ring-dance pantomime.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 July ii. 5/2 The lovesick rustics, who are chasing after one another and falling over themselves in the process, are played as so many hayseeds and hillbillies.

b. depreciative. A boorish, ignorant, or unsophisticated person; a yokel, a bumpkin. Also (with the and plural agreement): boorish people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person

bearc1395

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clown1583

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boor1598

kill-courtesy1600

rustic1600

clunch1602

loblolly1604

camel1609

clusterfist1611

loon1619

Grobian1621

rough diamonda1625

hoyde1636

clodhopper1699

roughhead1726

indelicate1741

vulgarian1809

snob1838

vulgarist1847

yahoo1861

cave-dweller1865

polisson1866

mucker1884

caveman1907

wampus1912

yobbo1922

yenta1923

yob1927

rude1946

cafone1949

no-neck1961

ocker1971

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. ii. sig. Oiii^v I, especially a Rusticke or a Clowne Madam, that it is not possible for the sharpest-sighted wit (in the world) to discerne any sparkes of the Gentleman in him, when he does it.

1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse ii. in Wks. (1874) V. 115 This hobinall, this rusticke, this base clowne.

1706 J. Addison Rosamond i. iii Thou art a rustick to call me so; I'm not ugly nor old.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 766/2 He who finds fault with any rusticity, is himself a rustic.

1824 C. M. Sedgwick Redwood II. xi. 63 ‘Lucy,’ said Ellen to Mr. Redwood, ‘is quite a rustic, like the rest of us—unlearned in the forms of courtesy.’

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) v. 142 It [sc. love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic.

1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. v. iii. 385 Hundreds of small shops..filled with such oddments and rubbish, gew-gaws and penny trash, as none but incurable rustics or newly breeched Indians would want to buy.

1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 75 Jerk off,..a rustic; a simpleton.

2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 95 Fucking backward rustics, he mutters.

c. A Eurasian noctuid moth, Hoplodrina blanda, with mottled brown forewings. Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of various other noctuid moths, typically greyish brown in colour, esp. Mesapamea secalis, a common moth of western Europe (more fully common rustic).hedge, rosy, union rustic: see the first element.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > rustic

rustic1803

1803 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica i. 133 The feathered Rustic... The light feathered Rustic.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 50 The Crescent Rustic (Agrotis lunigera, Stephens).

1856 Catal. Brit. Lepidoptera in J. E. Gray List Specimens Brit. Animals in Coll. Brit. Mus. V. 117 Caradrina blanda. The Rustic.

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 307/1 My predecessor divides this protean species into five—the Flame Furbelow..; the Russet..; the Letter I..; the Common Rustic..; and the Rustic Mourner.

1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 227 The Six-striped Rustic..is also generally distributed over our islands.

1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) ix. 122 Penmaenmawr and a few neighbouring mountains are the only known habitats of Ashworth's Rustic, Amathes ashworthii Dbl.

1992 M. Atherden Upland Brit. ix. 165 Other grassland moths include the common rustic, dark arches, cloud-bordered brindle and Mother Shipton.

2007 Daily Tel. 2 May 9/1 Some of the greatest declines were suffered by autumn rustic (92 per cent since 1968).

2. Architecture. Cf. A. 3a.

a. Masonry in the rustic style; rustic work; rustication. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry > types of

ashlar-work1398

rough wall1398

keying1483

corbelling1548

rustic1610

channel1611

rustic work1615

ledge1624

coffer-work1668

rubble work1675

canal1723

rockwork1755

ashlaring1758

rubble1815

ragwork1840

striped work1842

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work

rustic1610

rustic work1615

rustication1766

1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2 The other two Neeces..for variation had square frontispices, and against the streight Architraue of the other was an Arch. All these were mingled with rustick.

1687 tr. G. Brice New Descr. Paris ii. 72 On one hand is a great Body of Lodgings stone built of Two Stories high, in Bossage Rustick.

1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 13 Then clap four slices of Pilaster on't, And lac'd with bits of Rustic, 'tis a Front.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 489 The lower part is of a light rustic.

1817 ‘D. Hughson’ Walks through London 216 Rock-work, or rustic, can never be better introduced than in buildings by the side of water.

1853 Illustr. Mag. Art 1 109/1 The walls are wrought in rustic, and strengthened and ornamented by two rows of coupled pilasters.

1907 E. B. Chancellor Hist. Squares of London xii. 369 The corners of the building are faced with rustic.

†b. A rustic joint. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of joint

tenon and mortise1610

mortise and tenon1631

meeting1663

rustic1728

white joint1758

ground-joint1793

flat joint1825

hick-joint1842

perpend1867

struck joint1876

tuck-joint1879

1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 76 An uniform Disposition of equidistant Cavities, term'd Rusticks.

1882 W. J. Christy Pract. Treat Joints iii. 60 Columns not unfrequently have deep, thin, and square rustics.

c. A stone or brick of the type used in rustic work. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone for other specific building use > piece of

pendant1474

vault-stone1480

table stone1554

course-stone1610

rustic1797

arch-stone1828

courser1885

1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 242 The rustics may either be plain, hatched, or vermiculated.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 357/1 The principal front is faced with red kiln-burnt bricks, with bath-stone rustics to the quoins.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 735 When square joints are used, they should not be wider than one eighth part of the height of the rustic itself.

1853 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 16 134/2 I think a greater effect of solidity is sometimes attained by omitting the vertical joints; provided the projection of the rustics be very decidedly marked beyond the general line of wall.

1986 A. Limon in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) i. ii. 30 Some [facing bricks] called rustics have the texture imposed by machine.

†3. Country dialect. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > other types of dialect

rustic1841

idiolect1948

pachuco1948

target dialect1972

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 84/1 Sardinian Rustic.

Compounds

Compounds of the adjective.

C1.

rustic bunting n. a bunting, Emberiza rustica, of northern Eurasia, the male of which is predominantly reddish brown and white with a black and white head.

ΚΠ

1794–1808 E. Sibly Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 185 (heading) The rustic bunting.

1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 201 (margin) Rustic B[unting].

1890 H. Seebohm Birds Japanese Empire 134 The Rustic Bunting differs from every other bunting known to occur in Japan in having the breast and flanks broadly streaked with rich chestnut.

2003 Facts (Clute, Texas) 30 Oct. 4 a/1 The rustic bunting is an Eurasian species that is sometimes seen on St. Lawrence's Island.

rustic drama n. a play or other dramatic work about the actions and concerns of country people; such plays as a genre; also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. Introd. The custom of singing with the harp, and the acting of rustic dramas are still preserved in some districts of Wales.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton I. xiv. 306 They are probably familiar with rustic drama, and hold it in contempt.

1896 H. B. Dole tr. A. Theuriet Rustic Life France p. x We propose to depict the great acts of the rustic drama, seed-time, ploughing, haymaking, the harvest, and the vintage.

1967 French Rev. 41 162 The works themselves have been grouped together quite conveniently: the Pan trilogy, the semi-autobiographical novels, the rustic dramas, the epic novels, [etc.].

1977 R. H. Bloch Medieval French Lit. & Law iv. 169 There are three possible outcomes to the rustic drama of seduction.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 3 Dec. 48 He..gave one of his finest performances as John Wayne's mute brother in the rustic drama Shepherd of the Hills (1941).

rustic tribe n. [after classical Latin rustica tribus] Roman History = rural tribe n. at rural adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. iii. 551 Ouer and besides, vpon faires & market daies, the Rustick Tribes vsually visited the citie.

1706 N. de Souligné Compar. Old Rome & London ii. 117 The People of Rome..did consist in the Thirty One Rustick Tribes, who did live out of Rome in the Country, and in the Four Urbane Tribes within the Walls of the City.

1888 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 25 55 The Verria was a plebeian family, and the Falerina, in which it was registered, a rustic tribe.

1929 L. Homo Rom. Polit. Inst. ii. iv. 131 Non-proletarian urban electors had their names put on the Rustic Tribes in which they had property.

2006 R. Harris Imperium 126 Now the thirty-one rustic tribes started lining up: the Aemilia, Camilia, Fabia, Galeria... I..could tell you who were the key men in each.

† Rustic war n. [compare German Bauernkrieg (1616 or earlier)] Obsolete historical the German Peasants' War of 1524–5, an uprising throughout southern and western Germany of peasants and poorer townspeople against the nobility; cf. Rustical war n. at rustical adj. and n. Compounds.

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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > people's war > specific

rural war1560

Rustical war1560

Rustic war1673

1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. i. 85 At first the Rustick War had almost kindled all Germany, which indeed began upon very unjust Causes.

1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 60 Among others that fled out of Germany into England, from the Rustick War, there were some that went by the Name of Anabaptists.

1857 C. W. Elliott New Eng. Hist. I. xxv. 220 ‘Anabaptist’ was the mad-dog, infidel cry of those days; and had become so, partly..because of the atrocities and excesses of the ‘Rustic war’ of Munster.

1890 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 13 436 See the history of..the Rustic War..among the Germans, in the 16^th Century.

rustic work n. [originally after French œuvre rustique (1613 in the passage translated in quot. 1615)] Architecture masonry artificially roughened or left rough-hewn; rustication; cf. sense A. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry > types of

ashlar-work1398

rough wall1398

keying1483

corbelling1548

rustic1610

channel1611

rustic work1615

ledge1624

coffer-work1668

rubble work1675

canal1723

rockwork1755

ashlaring1758

rubble1815

ragwork1840

striped work1842

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work

rustic1610

rustic work1615

rustication1766

1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 942 There is also in the same place, a very faire columne of rustick worke, the stones whereof are all joyned together without lime, or morter.

1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xxvii. 49 Rustick-work..does not look well, unless it be in a very large Building.

1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. 391 The front to the courtyard is faced with that peculiar kind of masonry called rustic-work.

1908 W. S. Sparrow Eng. House xiii. 271 One other characteristic may be mentioned at this point, namely, the use of rustic work. It is described by Parker as dressed masonry.

1990 R. Swain Walker's Guide to Lancaster Canal viii. 66 The outside walls between the arches were to be 5 feet in thickness, done in rustic work as high as the cornice.

C2. Compounds of the noun.

† rustic-laced adj. Obsolete decorated with rustic work (cf. sense B. 2a).

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1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. ii. 46 His arched windows, his rustic-laced windows,..are striking proofs of his want of taste.

Derivatives

ˈrustic-like adj. and adv.

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1573 Life Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos sig. D^v This Poet..seemeth to doubt least that Ecloge which is intituled Pollio, will not appeare rusticklike enough.

1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 19 Telling you more rustick-like yet to be silent, and let them speak.

1767 Hist. Miss Pittborough I. i. 8 Adieu that soft, that rustic-like repose, derived from sober hours!

1851 Mercersburg Rev. Jan. 50 I have not learned Rustic-like to salute.

1883 L. R. P. C. Amott Minstrel 8 With the arbour's rustic-like assistance.

1982 R. W. Righter Crucible for Conservation 147 Homer Richards's gentle rebuke that it ‘could have been built a little more rustic-like’.

2009 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sports) On the bank of the Willamette River, Valley River Inn is a rustic-like resort just minutes from the university.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rustic
释义	rusticadj.n. Brit. /ˈrʌstɪk/, U.S. /ˈrəstɪk/ Forms: late Middle English rustyk, 1500s rustyke, 1500s–1600s rusticke, 1500s–1600s rustik, 1500s–1600s rustike, 1500s–1600s rustique, 1500s–1700s rustick, 1500s– rustic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rustique; Latin rūsticus. Etymology: < Middle French, French rustique of or belonging to the countryside or to rural life, rural (1355), that shows a lack of refinement, crude, coarse (1355), ignorant, foolish (early 15th cent.), that lives in the countryside (1558), (of a work of art) that imitates nature (1563), (of masonry) rough-hewn (1567), belonging to the rustic order of architecture (1676), made with a simplicity that suggests the life of the countryside (1720), (as noun) person living in the countryside (1451), rustic order of architecture (1582; 1549 in à la rustique ) and its etymon classical Latin rūsticus (adjective) of or suited to a farm or its cultivation, of, belonging to, or connected with the country, rural, (of animals and plants) occurring naturally or in the wild, living in the country, practising country pursuits, (of language or accent) typical of or sounding like a person who lives in the countryside, lacking the elegance or refinement of the town, crude, clumsy, having a country person's lack of refinement, uncouth, coarse, lacking a town person's worldly wisdom, naive, simple-minded, unsophisticated, provincial, (noun) person living in the countryside, peasant < rūs country (see rural adj.) + -ticus , ultimately < ancient Greek -τικος , suffix forming adjectives from verbs (compare -ic suffix), after other Latin adjectives in -ticus , e.g. exōticus exotic adj. Compare Old Occitan rustic (c1420), Italian rustico (1353; found in a similar range of senses; mid 16th cent. designating an order of architecture). Compare rustical adj.See note at rural adj. on the historical development of the semantic relationship between rustic and rural. A. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside (as opposed to the town); rural.Now less common than rural in the same sense. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective] fieldena1425 rustic?1440 citylessc1450 champestrea1492 rural?a1500 rustical1542 agrestc1550 predial1592 champestrial1612 agrestic1617 agrestical1623 agrested1650 upland1654 countrified1756 agrestian1812 country1827 mofussil1828 agrestial1840 landward1844 bucolic1846 out-country1939 land-bound1972 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1027 (MED) Of tyme is wex and hony maad swettest..and aftir hem is best Of rosemary and sauery; thenne is noon So good as they but rustyk [L. rustici] swete vchoon. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 The maist anciant nobilis..detestit vrbanite and desirit to..laubir rustic ocupation on the hoilsum feildis. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 127 The whole life rustike is hurtless, simple, and most of all framed to the true order of Nature. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 84 Of that kind Our rusticke Gardens barren. View more context for this quotation 1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 138 All the Sea-born Nereids implore Quick to return thee to our Rustick shore. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1330 Sottish drinking,..rustic sports, such as fox-chases, horse-races, etc. 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 104 I think it is of vast consequence both to the farmer and the public to extend the use of oxen for all rustic business. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 23 Something like this..must be the prevalent notion of Snow Hill in those remote and rustic parts. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 306 Stud and teer, a rustic mode of building a wall with interwoven sticks instead of lath. 1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 657 The oldest rustic festival here [sc. in Lothian] is the harvest home, or ‘kirn’. 1908 Mod. Philol. 6 33 A pastourelle is a simple poem set in a rustic scene. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Feb. 78/4 In the first version [of The Countess Kathleen]..there is a naive elaboration, in which ‘sheogues’, ‘tevishies’, ‘sowlths’, and other rustic spirits appear. 1990 J. Fane Best Friends 2 I shook the dust of the metropolis from my feet, and was doubtless relieved to resume my rustic pursuits. b. In the names of plants and animals.With rustic moth compare sense B. 1c. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 85 Bacchar is named by some Rustick-Nard. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 63 Woodcocks... Some iudge them to approch somewhat neere vnto the nature of the Partridge, and therefore is of them called the rusticke Partridge. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 448 Rustic Rat, Mus Agrarius. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 71 The Rustic Shoulder Knot..appears the beginning of June. 1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 344 It..is destitute of the lance-shaped spot on the fore wings; and hence I have named it Agrotis inermis, the unarmed rustic-moth. 1913 J. E. Rogers Shell Bk. lxxii. 286 The Rustic Amber Snail (S. rustica, Gld.), with a greenish, horn-coloured, rough, lustreless shell, is fragile like the rest. 1981 Irish Naturalist's Jrnl. 20 299 This species is known as the rustic borer... It is one of the commonest Cerambycidae in the Eastern United States. 2. a. Having the appearance or manners of a country person; esp. (depreciative) lacking in elegance, refinement, or education; boorish; ignorant. Now rare.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined > specifically of persons uplandisha1387 rustyc1485 rustical?1532 gross?1533 rusticc1550 rough-hewn1591 unfashioned1606 unpolite1674 crude1722 uncouth1732 piggish1742 rough-spun1768 coarse-graineda1774 coarse-fibred1872 rough as guts1919 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 49 Ane rustic pastour of bestialite, distitut of vrbanite and of speculatione of natural philosophe. 1574 R. Robinson Rewarde of Wickednesse sig. O2 The sonnes of Theeues & rustick Carles, might leade me as they list. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. Proem sig. Bb4^v But let that same delitious Poet lend A little leaue vnto a rusticke Muse To sing his mistresse prayse. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 43 I am not altogether so rustick, and nothing so irreligious. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 72/1 A Rustick Fellow, one without City or School breeding, without cleanliness, and of a slovenly Speech. a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) II. vii. 53 G. Croese, who writ the pretended history of the Quakers, calls him a rustick fellow. 1743 H. Walpole Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 340 You see how rustic I am grown again! 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church iv. 173 I Patrick a sinner, the most rustic, and the least of all the faithful. 1932 E. Bowen To North (1961) xi. 114 Contriving to look as appealingly rustic in London as she had looked exotic at Farraways, Gera wore a large chip straw hat and frilly frock. 1987 M. Das Cyclones xiv. 64 Sudhir, you are rustic beyond redemption. Couldn't you send a small message? I could have received you at the bus-stop! b. Of a person: living in the countryside as opposed to the town; of a peasant or agricultural background.With quot. 1601 cf. rustic tribe n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting the country upland14.. ruralc1425 rustical?a1475 ruric1488 upalands1535 uplands1570 rustic1582 rusticated1757 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 1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. N.ij This rustick multitude, caryed seconde Saint Fraunces vnto his Tumbe. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 10 The Romaines highly prized the rusticke diuision [It. le Tribu rustiche] for their numbers and prouision. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 19 It is most meete for rusticke labourers. 1658 H. W. tr. E. de Refuge Accomplish'd Courtier (1660) xxxix. 134 The Peasants and Rustick people..at last devoure and eat up those swine, which they have formerly cramm'd and fatted. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xxi. 9 And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to dye. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 708 Assembling..The rustic throng beneath his fav'rite beech. 1817 G. Young Hist. Whitby II. 880 A procession of rustic youths dragging a plough, who, as they officiate for oxen, are called plough-stots. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 596 If Beaufort and his rustic followers could be overpowered before the regular troops arrived. 1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 295 We are only rustic people. 1901 Shooting Times 22 June 21/2 The eel is plentiful, and many rustic anglers go forth to catch him with rod and line. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 101 Until close on the end of the nineteenth century, the rustic population of England had an art of its own..: songs and dances, seasonal feasts and dramas and pageantry. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 14/1 A British journalist..had found (or, as likely, invented) a rustic ‘kelper’ in the Falklands. c. Physically robust; hardy; (of health) vigorous, rude. Cf. rustical adj. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > resistant to disease, etc. strongeOE stalworthc1175 starka1250 stiff1297 stalworthyc1300 vigorousc1330 stoura1350 lustyc1374 marrowya1382 sturdyc1386 crank1398 robust1490 vigorious1502 stalwart1508 hardy1548 robustious1548 of force1577 rustical1583 marrowed1612 rustic1620 robustic1652 solid1741 refractory1843 salted1864 resistant1876 saulteda1879 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > robust strongeOE hardOE stalworthc1175 starka1250 stiff1297 steel to the (very) backa1300 stalworthyc1300 wightc1300 stable13.. valiant1303 stithc1325 toughc1330 wrast1338 stoura1350 sadc1384 wighty14.. derfc1440 substantialc1460 well-jointed1483 felon1487 robust1490 stalwart1508 stoutya1529 robustous?1531 rankc1540 hardy1548 robustious1548 stout1576 rustical1583 rustic1620 iron1638 robustic1652 swankinga1704 strapping1707 rugged1731 solid1741 vaudy1793 flaithulach1829 ironbark1833 swankie1838 tough as (old) boots or leather1843 skookum1847 hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862 hard-assed1954 nails1974 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 50 They are tough, of a very hard concoction, and breed an euill and melancholike iuyce; yet they are good enough for robustious and rusticke bodies. 1643 tr. Hildanus' Exper. Chyrurg. ii. 4 Those of a hard and rustique flesh, and which are strong men, require more stronger Remedies. 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. II. vi. 42 That Remedy which is but mildly Detersive in some rustic Bodies, will be found a Catheretic in young Infants and Children. 1790 M. A. Radcliffe tr. Wocklow Radzivil II. 99 What image..can suffice to portray glowing youth and almost rustic health? a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 65 A disabled soldier, begging his way home from the field, which..he had sought in the full vigor of rustic health he was never to know again. 1868 E. R. Mudge & J. L. Hayes Rep. Wool & Manuf. Wool i. 12 The new merino..is more rustic and hardy than the foreign races. 1906 Monthly Rev. 150 Jeanne, conscious of her own rustic strength and ruddy health, felt very sorry for the Duke. 1995 B. L. Hendricks Internat. Encycl. Horse Breeds 78/2 Since 1900 the breeding of Bosnian horses has been selective and controlled and the rustic, hardy qualities of this small horse have been preserved. 3. a. Architecture. Of masonry: characterized by a surface which is artificially roughened or left rough-hewn, or by having the joints (esp. the horizontal ones) deeply sunk or chamfered; (also) designating such a joint or surface. Also: of, relating to, or designating the Tuscan order of classical architecture (see Tuscan adj. c). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] > made or built of stone > in specific way rustic1563 rusticated1730 axed1813 rock-worked1818 Pelasgic1831 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders composite1563 Italic1563 Tuscan1563 Ionic?1566 compositive1601 Tuscanic1601 Doric1614 Ionical1624 Italian1624 Roman1624 compoundeda1639 compound ordera1639 Corinthiac1638 Corinthian1656 rustic1663 composed1728 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Eiiii^v Rusticke or Rughe hewed stone. ?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce f. 83^v Marforius. Of what worke was it made? Pasquine. Neyther of Dorique, nor Ionique, Corinthian, nor Rustique, nor of no Compounde, but of a worke Diabolique. 1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2 On the rustick frontispice lay two great figures in Rileue, which seemed to beare vp a Garland of Sea-weeds. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 29 The Tuscan, Column, or Rustick, Base and Capital. a1706 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. (1707) 42 Tuscan, Rustic, or by whatever name dignified, or disgrac'd. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 400 The Work is rustic, made with Knobs or Protuberances..without being smoothed. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 11 The present structure [is made] of brick, strengthened by rustic quoins of stone at the corners. 1826 Mirror of Lit. 4 Mar. 135/1 On account of its strong and massive proportions it [sc. the Tuscan order] is called the rustic order. 1876 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. (new ed.) III. 2007/2 Laid alternately stretcher and header with rustic joints. 1901 Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 3/1 The encircling wall of the city, of perfectly jointed stone work, yet each block with a ‘rustic’ surface. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 843/1 Texture brick, a rustic brick. 1983 J. S. Ackerman in Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 42 15 (title) The Tuscan/Rustic order: a study in the metaphorical language of architecture. 2002 J. Dunford & J. Holland Rough Guide N.Y. City 242 The house is unfortunately disfigured by aluminum windows and a modern rustic facing. b. Of or characteristic of rural workmanship; of a rough, plain, or simple form or style; esp. made of undressed branches or roots of trees. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill > not elaborately made rustic1600 uncurious1605 incurious1615 rural1624 inelaborate1650 bush1851 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [adjective] > dressed > not > made of undressed wood rustic1600 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Satyre iii Heele finde if one prooue false vnto his wife, Onely with Oxe blood, and a rustic knife. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 433 Ith' midst an Altar as the Land-mark stood Rustic, of grassie sord. View more context for this quotation 1752 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 89 Three rustick arches, set off with ivy, moss, icicles, and all the rocky appurtenances. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 267 Descending now..upon a rustic bridge We pass a gulph. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 32 The gentleman and lady continued to advance, directing their course to a rustic seat. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District 30 Two rustic bridges span the chasm. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 115/1 The ardent fisherman could build an old mill with a spill-way and water wheel—and with a rustic dock jutting out over the base. 1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 160 Red-cushioned country chairs around the close-set dark elm rustic tables. 2006 Lancs. Life Feb. 197/2 Contour round the protective rustic fence and bear left up the hillside. c. Palaeography. Also with capital initial. Of lettering: freely or irregularly formed; spec. designating one of the two styles of lettering used in early Latin manuscripts (opposed to square). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > others bastard1524 secretary1571 Gothical1612 Gothicc1660 Longobardic1677 Lombardic1697 Langobardic1724 longhand1729 rustic1768 Lombard1833 Carlovingian1853 mogigraphic1857 Carolingian1881 Beneventan1882 hand-printed1882 insular1908 script1920 1768 P. Thicknesse Useful Hints Tour of France xxxi. 265 In front of the cap, in rustic letters, was G. R. and over it Zulestein. 1784 T. Astle Origin & Progress Writing 79 The Rustic capitals were bold, negligent, unequal, composed of strokes, generally oblique, sometimes extravagant, and always inelegant. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 4/2 Vaguely formed ‘rustic’ or other free-hand letters are in bad taste on such drawings. 1876 W. De G. Birch Hist., Art & Palaeogr. of MS styled Utrecht Psalter iv. 165 The particular kind of Rustic lettering adopted by the scribe of the Utrecht Psalter undoubtedly betrays a certain debility of formation not seen in the Rustic hands of the Vatican Virgils. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 4 152 Distinguish between rustic and square capitals. 1975 Classical Rev. 25 297 The first..is an unusual piece–a large sheet with part of a dedication to Diocletian and Maximian written in rustic capitals with a soft reed or brush. 1995 J. Barrett & J. Iredale Discovering Old Handwriting ii. 25 In practice, rustic lettering was employed as the formal book hand of the Roman empire. 4. a. Characteristic or typical of country people.Often coloured by either sense A. 4b or sense A. 4c. ΚΠ 1567 G. Turberville in tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v I do not mystrust but Mantuans Shephierds will vse the matter with such dyscretion, and so set their rusticke Pipes in tune, as you will rather commend their melodie, than myslike their audacitie. 1590 E. Spenser Let. to Sir W. Raleigh in Faerie Queene 604 Why doe I send this rusticke Madrigale, That may thy tunefull eare vnseason quite? a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 175 Meane time, forget this new-falne dignitie, And fall into our Rusticke Reuelrie. 1637 J. Milton Comus 29 For which the shepheards at their festivalls Carroll her goodnesse lowd in rusticke layes. a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 44 Lay Bashfulness, that rustick Virtue, by. 1788 Trifler xviii. 245 The country 'squires dreaded the exposition of their rustic conversation to the ordeal of her criticism. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iv. 426 The rustic customs of the Afghauns are also in a great measure laid aside. 1887 M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin Wanted II. xvii. 221 Without any apprenticeship to the sublime art of scribbledom, she could write sweet, unalloyed, rustic English. 1932 C. Brooks Jrnl. 9 May (1998) 33 They conduct a kind of rustic wooing and harlotry in the popular cafes. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxvii. 148 Her cheeks looked hollowed and too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features. 2006 Daily Tel. 21 Dec. 33/3 Musicians in rustic dress come into the main squares to play plangent melodies on the piffero and zampogna—shawm and bagpipe. b. depreciative. Unrefined, vulgar; rough; crude. ΘΚΠ 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 1576 G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard ii. 91 Allotting to her harmelesse tongue, All rusticke speach, with Stentors voice. 1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 77 Fabius..as famous for his rusticke and vnciuile life, as now he is woondred at for his braue and courtly behauiour. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. viii. 20 Sores are not to bee anguish't with a rusticke pressure. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices i. 126 I doe not approve..of unmannerly and rusticke behaviour. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 199 That rustic contempt of the fair sex, which James affected. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 457 This is fulsome; and offends me more Than..rustic coarseness would. 1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxx. 380 The rustic air and uncombed locks of these Scandinavian warriors. 1892 Youth's Compan. 16 June 307/1 Generally the tally-ho party meeting us would observe our rustic equipage with wonder for a moment. 1919 Atlantic Monthly June 785/2 The rustic half-domesticated nature of rural England. 2008 United News of Bangladesh (Nexis) 14 Mar. The refined repartee of the people of Lucknow made other people's speech sound rustic; their polished manners made those of others appear oafish. c. Plain and simple; unsophisticated; having the charm of the countryside. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > homely or rustic homelya1387 uplandisha1387 hamald?a1400 rustical1483 agrestc1550 fustianc1550 homespun1590 russet1598 agrestic1617 raplocha1628 Adamitic1656 russet-coated1683 rustic1738 turnipy1792 countrified1875 corny1932 bakya1960 1738 S. Johnson London 79 [My] rustick tongue Ne'er knew to puzzle right, or varnish wrong. 1798 W. Wordsworth We are Seven in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 110 She had a rustic, woodland air. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 49 The rustic grace and sweetness of The May Queen. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 4 Another use of words may be forced upon us by a new aspect of facts, so that we may find ourselves saying: ‘Such and such a person is very gentle and kind—he is quite rustic’. 1917 C. L. Skinner Good Morning, Rosamond! iii. 25 You took me as if I were a—a—bunch of wild flowers, to give just the right contrasting touch of rustic simplicity. 1988 N.Y. Mag. 9 May 53/2 Robuchon, a country lad from the Loire, was an early crusader for the cause of rustic cooking, elevating pig's head to sainthood and reviving the glory of mashed potatoes. 1999 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 1 Apr. l1 The brick and wooden plank outwalls meant to give the restaurant its rustic Western look remained intact. B. n. 1. a. A person living in the countryside; a peasant. Now frequently in historical or literary contexts. ΘΚΠ 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 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun] countrymanc1300 landmana1400 Jack (John) Upland1402 rurala1475 rustical?1532 rusticc1550 Jock upalanda1568 John Uponlanda1568 rustican1570 countrywoman1679 country cousin1692 ruralist1739 country mouse1750 backwoodsman1774 back-countryman1796 mountaineer1837 ruralite1841 mountain man1847 smock-frock1858 way back1890 woop woop1936 swamp Yankee1941 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 c1550 in J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford (1804) I. 339 There are other markett-townes..wherein are both natives and rusticks of auncient tyme. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. ii. 71 b The figure following..is of the Azamoglan Rustique. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 715 How now (Rustiques) whither are you bound? View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 173 Your Rustics and Handicraft-men never pare their Nails. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 178 In how many countrey affairs must the scholar take the rustic for his master? ?1793 S. T. Coleridge Lines Beautiful Spring 18 The rustic..Whistling lorn ditties leans upon his crook. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 268 The polite public might think it strange and half unwarrantable that he..should do such honour to a rustic. 1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd I. i. 3 The Kentish rustics know very little of this City banking-house. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 8/3 Fortunately for the poor rustics, the village elemental is usually a creature of modest tastes. 1960 W. H. Auden Homage to Clio 28 Rustics in a ring-dance pantomime. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 July ii. 5/2 The lovesick rustics, who are chasing after one another and falling over themselves in the process, are played as so many hayseeds and hillbillies. b. depreciative. A boorish, ignorant, or unsophisticated person; a yokel, a bumpkin. Also (with the and plural agreement): boorish people as a class. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. ii. sig. Oiii^v I, especially a Rusticke or a Clowne Madam, that it is not possible for the sharpest-sighted wit (in the world) to discerne any sparkes of the Gentleman in him, when he does it. View more context for this quotation 1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse ii. in Wks. (1874) V. 115 This hobinall, this rusticke, this base clowne. 1706 J. Addison Rosamond i. iii Thou art a rustick to call me so; I'm not ugly nor old. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 766/2 He who finds fault with any rusticity, is himself a rustic. 1824 C. M. Sedgwick Redwood II. xi. 63 ‘Lucy,’ said Ellen to Mr. Redwood, ‘is quite a rustic, like the rest of us—unlearned in the forms of courtesy.’ 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) v. 142 It [sc. love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and rustic. 1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. v. iii. 385 Hundreds of small shops..filled with such oddments and rubbish, gew-gaws and penny trash, as none but incurable rustics or newly breeched Indians would want to buy. 1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 (Univ. S. Dakota) III–IV. 75 Jerk off,..a rustic; a simpleton. 2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 95 Fucking backward rustics, he mutters. c. A Eurasian noctuid moth, Hoplodrina blanda, with mottled brown forewings. Also (usually with distinguishing word): any of various other noctuid moths, typically greyish brown in colour, esp. Mesapamea secalis, a common moth of western Europe (more fully common rustic).hedge, rosy, union rustic: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > rustic rustic1803 1803 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica i. 133 The feathered Rustic... The light feathered Rustic. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 50 The Crescent Rustic (Agrotis lunigera, Stephens). 1856 Catal. Brit. Lepidoptera in J. E. Gray List Specimens Brit. Animals in Coll. Brit. Mus. V. 117 Caradrina blanda. The Rustic. 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 307/1 My predecessor divides this protean species into five—the Flame Furbelow..; the Russet..; the Letter I..; the Common Rustic..; and the Rustic Mourner. 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 227 The Six-striped Rustic..is also generally distributed over our islands. 1967 E. B. Ford Moths (ed. 2) ix. 122 Penmaenmawr and a few neighbouring mountains are the only known habitats of Ashworth's Rustic, Amathes ashworthii Dbl. 1992 M. Atherden Upland Brit. ix. 165 Other grassland moths include the common rustic, dark arches, cloud-bordered brindle and Mother Shipton. 2007 Daily Tel. 2 May 9/1 Some of the greatest declines were suffered by autumn rustic (92 per cent since 1968). 2. Architecture. Cf. A. 3a. a. Masonry in the rustic style; rustic work; rustication. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry > types of ashlar-work1398 rough wall1398 keying1483 corbelling1548 rustic1610 channel1611 rustic work1615 ledge1624 coffer-work1668 rubble work1675 canal1723 rockwork1755 ashlaring1758 rubble1815 ragwork1840 striped work1842 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work rustic1610 rustic work1615 rustication1766 1610 S. Daniel Tethys Festival in Order & Solemnitie Creation Prince Henrie sig. F2 The other two Neeces..for variation had square frontispices, and against the streight Architraue of the other was an Arch. All these were mingled with rustick. 1687 tr. G. Brice New Descr. Paris ii. 72 On one hand is a great Body of Lodgings stone built of Two Stories high, in Bossage Rustick. 1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 13 Then clap four slices of Pilaster on't, And lac'd with bits of Rustic, 'tis a Front. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 489 The lower part is of a light rustic. 1817 ‘D. Hughson’ Walks through London 216 Rock-work, or rustic, can never be better introduced than in buildings by the side of water. 1853 Illustr. Mag. Art 1 109/1 The walls are wrought in rustic, and strengthened and ornamented by two rows of coupled pilasters. 1907 E. B. Chancellor Hist. Squares of London xii. 369 The corners of the building are faced with rustic. †b. A rustic joint. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > types of joint tenon and mortise1610 mortise and tenon1631 meeting1663 rustic1728 white joint1758 ground-joint1793 flat joint1825 hick-joint1842 perpend1867 struck joint1876 tuck-joint1879 1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 76 An uniform Disposition of equidistant Cavities, term'd Rusticks. 1882 W. J. Christy Pract. Treat Joints iii. 60 Columns not unfrequently have deep, thin, and square rustics. c. A stone or brick of the type used in rustic work. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone for other specific building use > piece of pendant1474 vault-stone1480 table stone1554 course-stone1610 rustic1797 arch-stone1828 courser1885 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 242 The rustics may either be plain, hatched, or vermiculated. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 357/1 The principal front is faced with red kiln-burnt bricks, with bath-stone rustics to the quoins. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 735 When square joints are used, they should not be wider than one eighth part of the height of the rustic itself. 1853 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 16 134/2 I think a greater effect of solidity is sometimes attained by omitting the vertical joints; provided the projection of the rustics be very decidedly marked beyond the general line of wall. 1986 A. Limon in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) i. ii. 30 Some [facing bricks] called rustics have the texture imposed by machine. †3. Country dialect. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > other types of dialect rustic1841 idiolect1948 pachuco1948 target dialect1972 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 84/1 Sardinian Rustic. Compounds Compounds of the adjective. C1. rustic bunting n. a bunting, Emberiza rustica, of northern Eurasia, the male of which is predominantly reddish brown and white with a black and white head. ΚΠ 1794–1808 E. Sibly Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 185 (heading) The rustic bunting. 1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 201 (margin) Rustic B[unting]. 1890 H. Seebohm Birds Japanese Empire 134 The Rustic Bunting differs from every other bunting known to occur in Japan in having the breast and flanks broadly streaked with rich chestnut. 2003 Facts (Clute, Texas) 30 Oct. 4 a/1 The rustic bunting is an Eurasian species that is sometimes seen on St. Lawrence's Island. rustic drama n. a play or other dramatic work about the actions and concerns of country people; such plays as a genre; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. Introd. The custom of singing with the harp, and the acting of rustic dramas are still preserved in some districts of Wales. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton I. xiv. 306 They are probably familiar with rustic drama, and hold it in contempt. 1896 H. B. Dole tr. A. Theuriet Rustic Life France p. x We propose to depict the great acts of the rustic drama, seed-time, ploughing, haymaking, the harvest, and the vintage. 1967 French Rev. 41 162 The works themselves have been grouped together quite conveniently: the Pan trilogy, the semi-autobiographical novels, the rustic dramas, the epic novels, [etc.]. 1977 R. H. Bloch Medieval French Lit. & Law iv. 169 There are three possible outcomes to the rustic drama of seduction. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 3 Dec. 48 He..gave one of his finest performances as John Wayne's mute brother in the rustic drama Shepherd of the Hills (1941). rustic tribe n. [after classical Latin rustica tribus] Roman History = rural tribe n. at rural adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. iii. 551 Ouer and besides, vpon faires & market daies, the Rustick Tribes vsually visited the citie. 1706 N. de Souligné Compar. Old Rome & London ii. 117 The People of Rome..did consist in the Thirty One Rustick Tribes, who did live out of Rome in the Country, and in the Four Urbane Tribes within the Walls of the City. 1888 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 25 55 The Verria was a plebeian family, and the Falerina, in which it was registered, a rustic tribe. 1929 L. Homo Rom. Polit. Inst. ii. iv. 131 Non-proletarian urban electors had their names put on the Rustic Tribes in which they had property. 2006 R. Harris Imperium 126 Now the thirty-one rustic tribes started lining up: the Aemilia, Camilia, Fabia, Galeria... I..could tell you who were the key men in each. † Rustic war n. [compare German Bauernkrieg (1616 or earlier)] Obsolete historical the German Peasants' War of 1524–5, an uprising throughout southern and western Germany of peasants and poorer townspeople against the nobility; cf. Rustical war n. at rustical adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > people's war > specific rural war1560 Rustical war1560 Rustic war1673 1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. i. 85 At first the Rustick War had almost kindled all Germany, which indeed began upon very unjust Causes. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. ii. 60 Among others that fled out of Germany into England, from the Rustick War, there were some that went by the Name of Anabaptists. 1857 C. W. Elliott New Eng. Hist. I. xxv. 220 ‘Anabaptist’ was the mad-dog, infidel cry of those days; and had become so, partly..because of the atrocities and excesses of the ‘Rustic war’ of Munster. 1890 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 13 436 See the history of..the Rustic War..among the Germans, in the 16^th Century. rustic work n. [originally after French œuvre rustique (1613 in the passage translated in quot. 1615)] Architecture masonry artificially roughened or left rough-hewn; rustication; cf. sense A. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > stonework or masonry > types of ashlar-work1398 rough wall1398 keying1483 corbelling1548 rustic1610 channel1611 rustic work1615 ledge1624 coffer-work1668 rubble work1675 canal1723 rockwork1755 ashlaring1758 rubble1815 ragwork1840 striped work1842 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work rustic1610 rustic work1615 rustication1766 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 942 There is also in the same place, a very faire columne of rustick worke, the stones whereof are all joyned together without lime, or morter. 1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xxvii. 49 Rustick-work..does not look well, unless it be in a very large Building. 1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. 391 The front to the courtyard is faced with that peculiar kind of masonry called rustic-work. 1908 W. S. Sparrow Eng. House xiii. 271 One other characteristic may be mentioned at this point, namely, the use of rustic work. It is described by Parker as dressed masonry. 1990 R. Swain Walker's Guide to Lancaster Canal viii. 66 The outside walls between the arches were to be 5 feet in thickness, done in rustic work as high as the cornice. C2. Compounds of the noun. † rustic-laced adj. Obsolete decorated with rustic work (cf. sense B. 2a). ΚΠ 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. ii. 46 His arched windows, his rustic-laced windows,..are striking proofs of his want of taste. Derivatives ˈrustic-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1573 Life Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos sig. D^v This Poet..seemeth to doubt least that Ecloge which is intituled Pollio, will not appeare rusticklike enough. 1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 19 Telling you more rustick-like yet to be silent, and let them speak. 1767 Hist. Miss Pittborough I. i. 8 Adieu that soft, that rustic-like repose, derived from sober hours! 1851 Mercersburg Rev. Jan. 50 I have not learned Rustic-like to salute. 1883 L. R. P. C. Amott Minstrel 8 With the arbour's rustic-like assistance. 1982 R. W. Righter Crucible for Conservation 147 Homer Richards's gentle rebuke that it ‘could have been built a little more rustic-like’. 2009 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 16 Oct. (Sports) On the bank of the Willamette River, Valley River Inn is a rustic-like resort just minutes from the university. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?1440
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