Definitions

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  • adjective Rude; clownish; illiterate.

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a peasant.

Etymologies

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peasant +‎ -like

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Examples

  • SUMMER—GIVE YOUR HIPS SOME LOVE Summertime is meant for loose, gauzy, peasantlike tops that allow you to actually enjoy a backyard barbecue or poolside cocktail hour.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • SUMMER—GIVE YOUR HIPS SOME LOVE Summertime is meant for loose, gauzy, peasantlike tops that allow you to actually enjoy a backyard barbecue or poolside cocktail hour.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • SUMMER—GIVE YOUR HIPS SOME LOVE Summertime is meant for loose, gauzy, peasantlike tops that allow you to actually enjoy a backyard barbecue or poolside cocktail hour.

    The Style Checklist Lloyd Boston 2010

  • As dry and hard as the chambermaid in the hotel had been, she looked him over with peasantlike mistrust, without coming to the door.

    Maigret Afraid Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1953

  • His figure was undersized, his visage brown, hard, and peasantlike, his gesture was a gesticulation, and his voice was alternately feeble and shrill.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

  • Her skin was lightly tanned, and she looked strong, but not at all peasantlike.

    A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910

  • Something peasantlike in his genius may blind him a little to the finer shades of character and set him astray in his reports of cultivated society.

    Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines John Matthews Manly 1902

  • "Absolutely, monsieur," I answered in a rough peasantlike voice.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "Absolutely, monsieur," I answered in a rough peasantlike voice.

    The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 5 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "Absolutely, monsieur," I answered in a rough peasantlike voice.

    The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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