peasantly

comparative more peasantly · superlative most peasantly

1. Like a peasant.

   That sounds nice, if rather old Russian and peasantly.

   2011, Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

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   But ere I could enter three leaves into the Pamflet , (for I deferr the peasantly – rudenes , which by the Licencers leav , I met with afterwards

   1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC

   “Reckoning!” exclaimed Lord Dalgarno in the same tone as a rustique before, “perish the peasantly phrase! […]”

   1846, Sir Walter Scott, Bernhard Tauchnitz (Leipzig), The Fortunes of Nigel, page 179

   On the other hand, Ceribašić shows the persistence of “ancient”, “domestic” and “peasantly” as potential bearers of national identity.

   2003, Sanimir Resic, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, The Balkans in Focus: Cultural Boundaries in Europe, page 160

   I have no words in this peasantly state. Peasantly indeed, infinitely peasantly!

   2017, original Finnish version 1870, Aleksis Kivi, The Brothers Seven, page 106