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rustic
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique
Etymology
From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???st?k/
- Rhymes: -?st?k
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- The Princely revel may survey
- 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I
- 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.
- 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.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
Derived terms
- rustic moth
- rustic work
- rusticity
Translations
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 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.
- 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX
- 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.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus
Romanian
Etymology
From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.
Adjective
rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
- rustic
Declension
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cocky
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?k?ki/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?ki/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?k?ki/
- Rhymes: -?ki
Etymology 1
From cock (“male domestic chicken”) +? -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).
Adjective
cocky (comparative cockier, superlative cockiest)
- Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:arrogant
Alternative forms
- cockey
- cockie (rare)
Translations
Etymology 2
From cock (“male domestic chicken”) +? -y (diminutive suffix).
Noun
cocky (plural cockies)
- (chiefly Britain, Ireland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
Alternative forms
- cockey
- cockie
Translations
Etymology 3
The noun is derived from cock(atoo) +? -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
cocky (plural cockies) (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, informal)
- A (familiar name for a) cockatoo.
- (also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
- Synonyms: cockatoo, crofter
Usage notes
In New Zealand, cocky (sense 2) is often synonymous with sheep cocky (“a sheep farmer”), due to the relative importance of the industry.
Alternative forms
- cockey
- cockie
Derived terms
Verb
cocky (third-person singular simple present cockies, present participle cockying, simple past and past participle cockied)
- (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.
- Synonym: cockatoo
Alternative forms
- cockey
Translations
References
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