townish
adjEtymology From Middle English townishe, townysche, equivalent to town + -ish.
1
In compounds, Often Characteristic of a (certain type of) town.
2
Obsolete Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
- My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe that forbicauſe her lyvelood was but thyñ Would nedes goo ſeke her townyſſh ſyſters howſec. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 50v:
- In stature passing all the rest, A gallant girl for hewe; To be compared to townish nymphs, So faire she was to viewe.1567, George Turberville, second eclogue of Baptista Mantuanus:
- Derived terms
- townishly, townishness
- Related terms
- ghost-townish, out-of-townish, small-townish