rustics

Noun

rustic (plural rustics)

1. A rural person.
   • The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
2. (derogatory) An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
   • Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Stain of Indigo”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II)...

   Synonyms:

   bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker

3. A noctuoid moth.
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

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