fieldling
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fieldling (plural fieldlings)
- (rare) A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
- 1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500:
- She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]
- 1995, Drug addiction and environmental pollution - Page 135:
- Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood.