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.

Anagrams

• Lingfield