fieldish

English

Etymology

From earlier feldishe, equivalent to field +‎ -ish.

Adjective

fieldish (comparative more fieldish, superlative most fieldish)

1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.
   • a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt and unknown editors, “My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne” in the Arundel Harington Manuscript, no. 142:

     My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne
     They ſing a ſonge made of the fieldiſh mowſe [cf. Egerton Manuscript 2711 version: “they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe”]
     that for becauſe her lyvelode was but thynne
     woulde nedes go ſe her Towniſhe ſiſters howſe

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 314:

     But till this hour I did account it an idle tale of poets’ faming, that amid woods, forests, fertile fields, seacoasts, shores of great rivers and fountain brinks, and also upon the tops of huge and high mountains, do still appear unto certain favoured eyes the sundry-sorted nymphs and fieldish demigods.

Synonyms

• fieldy