Pleasantry vs Peasantry - What's the difference?
pleasantry | peasantry |
A casual, courteous remark
A playful remark; a jest
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(historical) Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
As nouns the difference between pleasantry and peasantry
is that pleasantry is a casual, courteous remark while peasantry is impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.pleasantry
English
Noun
(pleasantries)- Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries , the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
See also
*small talkpeasantry
English
Noun
(peasantries)- 1920' ''They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American '''peasantry , and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned.'' — Sinclair Lewis, Main Street",
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- 1885' ''Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired '''peasantry ; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.'' — George Eliot, ''Silas Marner ,
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