fieldling
fieldling noun: a dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
Noun
fieldling (plural fieldlings)
- A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
- She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500
- Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood.1995, Drug addiction and environmental pollution - Page 135
Forms of fieldling
| plural | fieldlings |
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Origin of fieldling
From field + -ling.
Questions about fieldling
- What does fieldling mean?
- Fieldling means a dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
- What part of speech is fieldling?
- Fieldling is a noun.
- What is the plural of fieldling?
- The plural of fieldling is fieldlings.
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