townishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

townish (comparative more townish, superlative most townish)

1. (often in combination) Characteristic of a (certain type of) town.
2. (obsolete) Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
   • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711‎^[1], page 50v:

     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 howſe

   • 1567, George Turberville, second eclogue of Baptista Mantuanus:

     In stature passing all the rest,
     A gallant girl for hewe;
     To be compared to townish nymphs,
     So faire she was to viewe.

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