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Rustic vs Currish - What's the difference?

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Rustic is a related term of currish.


As adjectives the difference between rustic and currish

is that rustic is country-styled or pastoral; rural while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.

As a noun rustic

is a (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.

rustic

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
  • * (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
    • She had a rustic , woodland air.
  • Unfinished or roughly finished.
  • Crude, rough.
  • Simple; artless; unaffected.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}

    Derived terms

    * rustic moth * rustic work

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1700s=17??, 1800s=1818 1820}} * late 1700s — (Robert Burns), *: The Princely revel may survey
    Our rustic dance wi' scorn. * 1818 — (Mary Shelley), Ch. I *: With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. * 1820 — (Washington Irving), *: To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
  • * 1906 — (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Ch IX
    • The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
  • * 1927-29' — (Mahatma Gandhi), '', Part V, The Stain of Indigo'', translated ' 1940 by (Mahadev Desai)
    • Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics .

    Anagrams

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    currish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
    • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

    • Synonyms

    * doggish