peasantly

English

Etymology

From peasant +‎ -ly.

Adjective

peasantly (comparative more peasantly, superlative most peasantly)

1. Like a peasant.
   • 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     But ere I could enter three leaves into the Pamflet , (for I deferr the peasantly – rudenes , which by the Licencers leav , I met with afterwards

   • 1846, Sir Walter Scott, Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig), The Fortunes of Nigel, page 179:

     “Reckoning!” exclaimed Lord Dalgarno in the same tone as a rustique before, “perish the peasantly phrase! […] ”

   • 2003, Sanimir Resic, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe, page 160:

     On the other hand, Ceribašić shows the persistence of “ancient”, “domestic” and “peasantly” as potential bearers of national identity.

   • 2011, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World:

     That sounds nice, if rather old Russian and peasantly.

   • 2017, original Finnish version 1870, Aleksis Kivi, The Brothers Seven, page 106:

     I have no words in this peasantly state.
     Peasantly indeed, infinitely peasantly!

Translations

like a peasant

• Finnish: talonpoikainen
• Polish: chamsko (pl), wieśniacko

References

• “peasantly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• napsylate