fieldling

English

Etymology

From field + -ling.

Noun

fieldling (plural fieldlings)

  1. (rare) A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
    • 1947, Lee Foster Hartman, ‎Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500:
      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 [...]
    • 1995, Drug addiction and environmental pollution - Page 135:
      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.
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