Crossword clues for rustic
rustic
- Characteristic of the countryside
- Simple compound of Fe and zinc (not Zn)
- Simple citrus concoction
- As of the countryside
- Rough, pear-shaped citrus
- Peasant recycling one crust
- Peasant; roughly made
- It's chewed by dog after picking up clodhopper
- Doctor is curt and unrefined
- Unrefined team sport, with good man in charge
- Sticks figure
- Suitable for the country
- Quaintly countrified
- Person living in the country
- No city slicker
- Log cabinish
- Like much beach cottage decor
- Lacking modern conveniences
- Citrus (anag)
- Snuffy Smith, for one
- Rural
- From the sticks
- Country resident
- Countryish
- Simple country person
- Arcadian
- An unsophisticated country person
- Countrylike
- Bucolic
- Pastoral
- City slicker's antithesis
- Lacking polish
- Yokel
- Bumpkin
- Countryman’s sport with short bat
- Country game needs good man in charge
- Country game with good person in charge
- Citrus cultivated in the countryside
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rustic \Rus"tic\, a. [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See Rural.]
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Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. ``Rustic lays.''
--Milton.And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
--Gray.She had a rustic, woodland air.
--Wordsworth. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. ``A rustic muse.''
--Spenser.Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
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Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. --Pope. Rustic moth (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larv[ae] are called cutworms. See Cutworm. Rustic work.
(Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous.
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(Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.
Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural.
Rustic \Rus"tic\, n.
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An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.
--Pope. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin rusticus "of the country, rural; country-like, plain, simple, rough, coarse, awkward," from rus (genitive ruris) "open land, country" (see rural). Noun meaning "a country person, peasant" is from 1550s (also in classical Latin). Related: Rustical (early 15c.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 country-styled or pastoral; rural. 2 unfinished or roughly finished. 3 crude, rough. 4 simple; artless; unaffected. n. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
WordNet
n. an unsophisticated country person
adj. characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied]
awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated]
used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral]
characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic]
Wikipedia
Rustic can refer to:
In zoology:
- Rustic moths, various noctuid moths of subfamilies Hadeninae and Noctuinae, including
- The Rustic, ( Hoplodrina blanda, Hadeninae)
- The Rustic ( Cupha erymanthis), a brush-footed butterfly
- Rustic Sphinx ( Manduca rustica), a hawkmoth
In geography:
- Rustic, Toronto, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In architecture:
- Rustication (architecture), a masonry technique mainly employed in Renaissance architecture
- Rustic architecture, an informal architectural style in the United States and Canada with several variations
In palaeography and calligraphy:
- Rustic capitals, a formal Roman script
Usage examples of "rustic".
The bruised herb, or an ointment made from it, is applied by rustics to heal fresh cuts and contusions.
He shook his festoon of chins towards the remainder of the party, Choc and Rupert, who were scrambling down the bank towards the path below where an oak tree shed deep shadows over a stile and a rustic bridge.
The plant is further known to rustics as Cyderach, or Ciderage, and as Red-knees, from its red angular points.
A rustic pipe--giving forth a sonorous moan, now cooing and crooning, now bold and confident, and again irresolute and unschooled.
An estoppel, which would have been so conclusive in the case of a city courtier, was not sufficient, however, to satisfy the more frank and direct rustic, and he proceeded with some new suggestions, in the hope to change her determination.
This epidemic of rustic rabbis, with their simplistic philosophy and folksy adages, gives the Jewish religious establishment and the Roman occupiers a rare opportunity for cooperation, for the priests resent the devotion and enthusiasm that the uneducated Wad lavishes on these fanatics, and the Romans see them as foci for social unrest in a population already dangerously unstable.
Ron did have access to a rustic hunting and fishing cabin near Gladwin that belonged to the family of his professed girlfriend, Debbie.
At first, most of the saucer stories had come from menopausal matrons and goitrous, slab-jawed rustics with steel-framed eyeglasses, but gradually there had been a shift away from the obvious crank segment of the population and toward those whose words carried intrinsic weight.
Lester, Kewpie, and I, so I stopped in the same Rustic Bar for a drink on the way back to the hotel.
Oft on his altar shall my firstlings bleed, See, by his bounty here with rustic reed I play the airs I love the livelong day, The while my oxen round about me stray.
The muralist had painted rustic cracks along with several patches of bricks, as if the plaster had broken away in places.
He had hardly expected to see her here in this rollicking, rustic gathering.
The influence of the capital doubtless has some little effect on the latter, but not enough to raise them above the ordinary rusticity, for the French peasants are as rustic in their appearance and habits as the upper classes are refined.
Her conversation was lively, and rather bold, not at all in the coarse sense, but she struck me as having formed a system of ethics and views of life, both good-humoured and sarcastic, and had carried into her rustic sequestration the melancholy and precocious lore of her early London experience.
It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles--buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons--with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb.