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Definitions for: Rustic
[n] an unsophisticated country person
[adj] awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
[adj] characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"
[adj] used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
[adj] characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"
Webster (1913) Definition: Rus"tic, a. [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country:
cf. F. rustique. See Rural.]
1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic
gods of antiquity. ``Rustic lays.'' --Milton.
And many a holy text around she strews, That teach
the rustic moralist to die. --Gray.
She had a rustic, woodland air. --Wordsworth.
2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. ``A
rustic muse.'' --Spenser.
3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic
dress.
4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. --Pope.
Rustic moth (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and
allied genera. Their larv[ae] are called cutworms. See
Cutworm.
Rustic work.
(a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked
with grooves or channels, the face of each block
projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are
very conspicuous.
(b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for
summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees
fancifully arranged.
Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward;
rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless;
honest. See Rural.
Rus"tic, n.
1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude,
coarse, or dull; a clown.
Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.
--Pope.
2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or
manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]
Synonyms: agrestic, arcadian, bucolic, bumpkinly, countrified, countryfied, hick, pastoral, provincial, rural, unsophisticated
See Also: bucolic, bumpkin, bushwhacker, chawbacon, common man, common person, commoner, coon, countryman, countrywoman, cracker, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, peasant, provincial, redneck, rube, woodman, woodsman, yahoo, yokel
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