Fieldling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer. rare

    "She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]"

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churlrural dweller

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"She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]"

Etymology

From field + -ling.

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