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fieldfolk

fieldfolk noun: labourers who work in the fields.

Noun

fieldfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) labourers who work in the fields.
    • And soon anon came crossing
      The chamber in the gray
      Figures of jigging fieldfolk—
      Saviours of corn and hay1922, Thomas Hardy, 'In the Small Hours' in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, Macmillan, page 181

Origin of fieldfolk

From field + folk.

Questions about fieldfolk

What does fieldfolk mean?
Fieldfolk means labourers who work in the fields.
What part of speech is fieldfolk?
Fieldfolk is a noun.

Words near fieldfolk in the dictionary

  1. fielders
  2. fielders' choices
  3. fieldes
  4. fieldfare
  5. fieldfares
  6. fieldfolk
  7. fieldful
  8. fieldfuls
  9. fieldglasses
  10. fieldgun
  11. fieldguns

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