单词 | fieldish |
释义 | fieldishadj. 1. That inhabits or comes from a field; of, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside; rustic, rural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > terrestrial > inhabiting fields fieldish1557 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. L.iv They sing a song made of the feldishe mouse [a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) feld mowse]. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure (1813) II. xxii. 251 He being in his fieldish house, besides the which there was a myll. 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Rr A rusticall, or fieldishe songe. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 65 Vpon this hill one people of all sortes inhabyting: very many & diuerse susteyned by wilde foode and fieldishe reliefe. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress vii. 119 Her eyes grew big and frightened, like some little fieldish thing's that sees a hawk. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [adjective] > and open fieldya1400 champian1523 champaign1575 fieldish1587 fielden1604 1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. B.viij If there be any wyght that myndes to trye By course of charets on the fieldish playne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1557 |
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