PEASANT
ADJECTIVES
1910 ► ALFALFA rustic, slow, peasant-like → US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
– BABA in Russia & other parts of Eastern Europe, & among people of Eastern European descent: a peasant woman; an old woman; a grandmother …1882
– BENNY an unsophisticated peasant; a stupid person …1998 UK sl.
– BERGIER †* a peasant, a rustic, a woodman …1480
– BODACH a peasant, a churl …1865 Irish
– BOND † a peasant …c1275
– BONDMAN a peasant; a serf; a slave …a1340 arch.
– BOUNDE † a husbandman, a peasant, a serf …c1320
– BULL-DRIVER a peasant, a farmer …1900s US sl.
– CARLLEIN †* a little carl, rustic, or peasant …c1460
– CARLOT †* a churl, a rustic, a peasant …1600
– DAD AND DAVE a peasant; an unsophisticated person …1930s Aust. sl.
– DUNGHILL † (derogatory) a person of low social status; a commoner or peasant; chiefly used as a demeaning term of reproach or abuse …1608
– FARMER (derogatory) a peasant; an unsophisticated country person, whether an actual farmer or not; a rustic hillbilly …1864 US sl.
– GARVIE a country bumpkin; an unsophisticated peasant …1963 S. Afr. sl.
– GAWIE a country bumpkin; an unsophisticated peasant …1963 S. Afr. sl.
– GINK a peasant …1915 sl. orig. US
– JACK a peasant …1513 sl.
– JACK-UPALAND a peasant …Bk1896 sl.
– JACK UPLAND a rustic; a peasant; a country dweller …1402
– JAMIE a peasant, a rustic …1804 Sc.
– JEFF (derogatory) a White rustic, a peasant, esp. a Southerner …1930s US Black sl.
– JEFF DAVIS a rustic; a peasant, usually from the South …1940s US Black sl.
– JEFFER a rustic, a peasant …1960s US Black sl.
– LANDMAN a countryman, a peasant …a1300
– PAGE † (often depreciative) a youth or man of low status; a commoner; a peasant; a labourer …c1385 obs, exc. Sc.
– PAISANO in Spain and Spanish-speaking communities, esp. in Mexico and the south-western US: a fellow-countryman; also, a peasant …a1836
– QUASHEE, QUASHIE a country bumpkin; a peasant; a stupid person …M19 sl.
– QUAW a stupid, ugly person; a peasant or bumpkin …M19 W. Indies sl.
– QUAWY a stupid, ugly person; a peasant or bumpkin …M19 W. Indies sl.
– QUEER CUFFIN a peasant …L17 sl.
– RABBIT-CHOKER a country person; a farmer; an unsophisticated peasant; a hillbilly …c1950 Amer.
– RUSTICAN †* a countryman, a rustic, a peasant …1570
– TILLMAN † a man employed in tillage; a farmer, husbandman; a ploughman, a peasant; a tiller of the soil …940
– TILLSMAN † a ’tillman’ …1561-2
– WICKER-HEAD a Vietnamese peasant …1991 US sl.
– YAP (derogatory) a farmer; a rustic; a peasant …1899 tramps’ sl.
– YAWP (derogatory) a peasant; a rustic simpleton …1911 US sl.
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