Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fieldish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: field-ish
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.

Example Sentences

"My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne They ſing a ſonge made of the fieldiſh mowſe [cf. Egerton Manuscript 2711 version: “they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe”] that for becauſe her lyvelode was but thynne"
"But till this hour I did account it an idle tale of poets’ faming, that amid woods, forests, fertile fields, seacoasts, shores of great rivers and fountain brinks, and also upon the tops of huge and high mountains, do still appear unto certain favoured eyes the sundry-sorted nymphs and fieldish demigods."

Etymology

From earlier feldishe, equivalent to field + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: field

Inflected Forms

more fieldish (comparative) most fieldish (superlative)

Synonyms

fieldy

Questions

What does fieldish mean?: Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.
Where does fieldish come from?: From earlier feldishe, equivalent to field + -ish.

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