† upalandadv.
Scottish. Obsolete.
a. = uponland adv.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adverb]
uponlanda900
uplandc1380
upaland?a1513
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 133 At feastis and brydallis wpaland He wan the gre.
1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 209 Yf it be Upaland, whaire the people convene to doctrine bot once in the weeke.
1568 in Bannat. MS. in Gilchrist Scot. Bal. II. 104 Iok tuk Jynny be the hand..And made a brydell up alland.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 158 Ȝe do not ȝour office, For vpaland thay haue not dew seruice.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets xxv. 3 This is no lyfe that I live vpaland.
1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Up-a-land, at a distance from the sea; in the country.
b. Jock upaland n. a rustic; also allusively.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > country dweller > [noun]
countrymanc1300
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
rurala1475
rustical?1532
rusticc1550
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
rustican1570
countrywoman1679
country cousin1692
ruralist1739
country mouse1750
backwoodsman1774
back-countryman1796
mountaineer1837
ruralite1841
mountain man1847
smock-frock1858
way back1890
woop woop1936
swamp Yankee1941
a1568 Bannatyne MS (Hunterian Club) 268 Thus said Jok vpalland.
1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 463 Many are gaping for it [sc. a church], and using moyen at Court to gaine it, but it will be Jok up-a-land.
Derivatives
upalands adj. = uplands adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting the country
upland14..
ruralc1425
rustical?a1475
ruric1488
upalands1535
uplands1570
rustic1582
rusticated1757
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
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 4040 I leirit ȝow merchants mony ane wyle, Vpalands wyfis for to begyle.
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Pero, vpalands shoone.
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