townish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English townishe, townysche, equivalent to town + -ish.
Adjective
[edit]townish (comparative more townish, superlative most townish)
- (often in combination) Characteristic of a (certain type of) town.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
- c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711[1], page 50v:
- My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ
they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe
that forbicauſe her lyvelood was but thyñ
Would nedes goo ſeke her townyſſh ſyſters howſe
- 1567, George Turberville, second eclogue of Baptista Mantuanus:
- In stature passing all the rest,
A gallant girl for hewe;
To be compared to townish nymphs,
So faire she was to viewe.