Alternative forms

• (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#RUSTIC rūsticus. Doublet of roisterCategory:English doublets#RUSTIC.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌstɪk/Category:English 2-syllable words#RUSTICCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#RUSTIC

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• Rhymes: -ʌstɪkCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌstɪk#RUSTICCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌstɪk/2 syllables#RUSTIC

Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)Category:English lemmas#RUSTICCategory:English adjectives#RUSTICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTICCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTICCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTIC

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.

   rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freelyCategory:English terms with usage examples#RUSTIC

   • 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:

     She had a rustic, woodland air.

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   • late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves

     The Princely revel may survey
     Our rustic dance wi' scorn.Category:English terms with quotations#RUSTIC

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.

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   • 1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

     To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

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2. Unfinished or roughly finished.

   rustic mannersCategory:English terms with usage examples#RUSTIC

3. Crude, rough.
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
   • 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:

     the manners not too polite nor too rustic

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   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

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Noun

rustic (plural rustics)Category:English lemmas#RUSTICCategory:English nouns#RUSTICCategory:English countable nouns#RUSTICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#RUSTICCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTICCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTIC

1. A rural person.
   • 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226:

     The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.

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   • 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:

     The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.

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2. (derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#RUSTIC) An unsophisticated or uncultured person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Stain of Indigo”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:

     Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

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3. (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#RUSTIC) A noctuoid moth.
4. (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#RUSTIC) Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Cupha%20erymanthis.

Anagrams

• Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#RUSTICCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#RUSTIC rustique, from LatinCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#RUSTIC rusticus.

Adjective

rustic m or n (feminine singular rustică, masculine plural rustici, feminine/neuter plural rustice)Category:Romanian lemmas#RUSTICCategory:Romanian adjectives#RUSTICCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#RUSTICCategory:Pages with entries#RUSTICCategory:Pages with 2 entries#RUSTIC

1. rustic