† clownicaladj.
Obsolete. rare.
Clown-like.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic
churlisha1000
upland14..
rustical?a1475
ruric1488
rusticate?a1505
rural1513
upalands1535
clownish1570
rustic1582
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
swainish1642
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
Corydonical1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
farmerly1689
peasant1702
soil-bound1814
farmerish1835
farmery1862
corn-pone1919
swede-bashing1936
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective]
churlisha1000
ruric1488
rural1513
rusticalc1525
peasant1550
peasantly1569
clownish1570
rustic1576
shepherdly1579
russet1598
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
high-shoon1654
Corydonical1656
high-shod1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
russet-coated1683
one-gallus1881
one-gallused1887
red-necked1896
rube1898
takhaar1899
backwoodsya1910
swede-bashing1936
backwoodish1946
1614 J. Cooke City Gallant in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XI. 237 My behaviour! alas, alas! 'tis clownical.
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