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rustics

[ruhs-tik] Origin

rus·tic

[ruhs-tik]
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
2.
simple, artless, or unsophisticated.
3.
uncouth, rude, or boorish.
4.
made of roughly dressed limbs or roots of trees, as garden seats.
5.
(of stonework) having the surfaces rough or irregular and the joints sunken or beveled.
noun
6.
a country person.
7.
an unsophisticated country person.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin rūsticus, equivalent to rūs the country (see rural) + -ticus adj. suffix

rus·ti·cal, adjective
rus·ti·cal·ly, rus·tic·ly, adverb
rus·ti·cal·ness, rus·tic·ness, noun
non·rus·tic, adjective
non·rus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
EXPAND
un·rus·tic, adjective
un·rus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
COLLAPSE


1. See rural.


1. urban.

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Word Origin & History

rustic
1440, from L. rusticus, from rus (gen. ruris) "open land, country" (see rural). Noun meaning "a country person, peasant" is from c.1550.
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