peasantlike
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Peasantlike — Peas ant*like , a. Rude; clownish; illiterate. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
peasantlike — a.; (also peasantly) Rude, clownish, illiterate … New dictionary of synonyms
peasantlike — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ adjective : of, relating to, or characteristic of a peasant … Useful english dictionary
peasant — peasantlike, adj. /pez euhnt/, n. 1. a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank. 2. a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person of little financial… … Universalium
Peasantly — Peas ant*ly, a. Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
churlish — churlishly, adv. churlishness, n. /cherr lish/, adj. 1. like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior. 2. of a churl; peasantlike. 3. niggardly; mean. 4. difficult to work or deal with, as soil. [bef. 1000; ME cherlish, OE ceorlisc. See CHURL,… … Universalium
pre-Columbian civilizations — Introduction the aboriginal American Indian (Mesoamerican Indian) cultures that evolved in Meso America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th … Universalium
peasantly — a. See peasantlike … New dictionary of synonyms
boorish — adj 1. rude, vulgar, uncouth, coarse, unmannerly, ill mannered, ill bred; churlish, brutish, barbaric, crude, crass, base, low, vile, contemptible; loutish, oafish, doltish, cloddish, stolid, clodhopping, gawkish or gawky, lubberly, lumpish,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
