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English
Etymology
From earlier feldishe, equivalent to field + -ish.
Adjective
fieldish (comparative more fieldish, superlative most fieldish)
- Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.
- a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt and unknown editors, “My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne” in the Arundel Harington Manuscript, no. 142:
- My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne
They ſing a ſonge made of the fieldiſh mowſe
that for becauſe her lyvelode was but thynne
woulde nedes go ſe her Towniſhe ſiſters howſe
2013, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:But till this hour I did account it an idle tale of poets' faming, that amid woods, forests, fertile fields, seacoasts, shores of great rivers and fountain brinks, and also upon the tops of huge and high mountains, do still appear unto certain favoured eyes the sundry-sorted nymphs and fieldish demigods. Which thing if I now verily behold, 'tis a great marvel, [...]
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