PEASANT
ADJECTIVES
► ALFALFA rustic, slow, peasant-like → 1910 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 obs.
► BODACH a peasant, a churl → 1865 Irish
► BOND a peasant → c1275 obs.
► BONDMAN a peasant; a serf; a slave → a1340 arch.
► BOONIE a peasant, a country person → 1950s sl.
► BOUNDE a husbandman, a peasant, a serf → c1320 obs.
► BULL-DRIVER a peasant, a farmer → 1900s US sl.
► CARLLEIN a little carl, rustic, or peasant → c1460 obs.
► CARLOT a churl, a rustic, a peasant → 1600 obs.
► CHURL a countryman, a peasant, a rustic, a boor → 1275
► DAD AND DAVE a peasant; an unsophisticated person → 1930s Aust. sl.
► DUNGHILL a person of low social status; a commoner or peasant; chiefly used as a demeaning term of reproach or abuse → 1608 obs., derogatory
► FARMER a peasant; an unsophisticated country person, whether an actual farmer or not; a rustic hillbilly → 1864 US sl., derogatory
► GARVIE ► GAWIE a country bumpkin; an unsophisticated peasant → 1963 S. Afr. sl.
► GINK a peasant → 1915 sl. orig. US
► HOBBINALL ► HOBBINOL ► HOBBINOLD ► HOBBINOLL ► HOBINALL ► HOBINOLL ► HOBYNOLL ► HOBNOL the name of a shepherd in Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender; hence, a countryman, a rustic, a peasant → 1579 obs.
► JACK a peasant → 1513 sl.
► JACK UPLAND a rustic; a peasant; a country dweller → 1402
► JACK-UPALAND a peasant → 1896 sl. (Bk.)
► JAMIE a peasant, a rustic → 1804 Sc.
► JEFF a White rustic, a peasant, esp. a Southerner → 1930s African-American sl., derogatory
► JEFF DAVIS a rustic; a peasant, usually from the South → 1940s African-American sl.
► JEFFER a rustic, a peasant → 1960s African-American sl.
► JUNGLI an uneducated peasant → 1927
► LANDMAN a countryman, a peasant → a1300
► NOSE PICKER a rustic, a peasant → 1970 US sl.
► PAGE a youth or man of low status; a commoner; a peasant; a labourer → c1385 obs, exc. Sc., often depreciative
► 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 ► 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.
► RURALIST an inhabitant of the country; a farmer, a peasant → 1739
► RUSSET-COAT a country person, a peasant; a homely or unsophisticated person → 1568
► RUSTIC a person living in the countryside; a peasant → c1550
► RUSTICAN a countryman, a rustic, a peasant → 1570 obs.
► SHEEP-SHAGGER a peasant → 1974 UK sl.
► TILLMAN a man employed in tillage; a farmer, husbandman; a ploughman, a peasant; a tiller of the soil → 940 obs.
► TILLSMAN a ’tillman’ → 1561-2 obs.
► WICKER-HEAD a Vietnamese peasant → 1991 US sl.
► YAK-SHAGGER a peasant → 1979 Irish sl.
► YAP a farmer; a rustic; a peasant → 1899 tramps’ sl., derogatory
► YAWP a peasant; a rustic simpleton → 1911 US sl., derogatory