# rustic
## English
### Alternative forms

* (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

### Etymology

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹʌstɪk/
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* Rhymes: -ʌstɪk

### Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
* Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
** 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:She had a rustic, woodland air.
** late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
    The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
** 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC: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, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
* Unfinished or roughly finished.
    rustic manners
* Crude, rough.
    rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
* Simple; artless; unaffected.
** 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:the manners not too polite nor too rustic
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC: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

* rosy rustic
* rustic bunting
* rusticity
* rustic moth
* rustic ware
* rustic-work

#### Translations
### Noun

rustic (plural rustics)
* A rural person.
** 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226: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.
** 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC: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.
* (derogatory) An unsophisticated or uncultured person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin
** 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), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
* (entomology) A noctuoid moth.
* (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French rustique, from Latin rusticus.

### Adjective

rustic m or n (feminine singular rustică, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
* rustic