villaticadj.
/vɪˈlatɪk/ Of or pertaining to a villa or villas, or the inhabitants; esp. (after the original sense of villa), rural, rustic; village-. The Miltonic passage has been freely echoed in the 19th cent.: see the first group of quots. and 1822–56 in (b).
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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
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > villa
villatic1671
villaed1791
(a)
(b)1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 147. ⁋8 He..consulted with her..how I might be..disencumbered from villatick bashfulness.a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) I. 162 Two rebellious enchanters, whom villatic rusticity styled, Cow-herds,—or Cow-boys.1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ix. 121 A feeling of villatic pride in beholding our townsman occupying so large a space in the public eye.1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. App. 284 Little asteroids that formed ample inheritances for the wants of this or that provincial squire, of this or that tame villatic squireen.1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1695 The perched roosts, And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic Fowl. View more context for this quotation
1822 C. Lamb Corr. (1870) 164 Widgeon, snipes, barn-door fowls, ducks, geese—your tame villatic things.
1889 Good Words Nov. 786/2 [Jacob] herding the tame villatic sheep of his father.
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