rustic

Etymology

From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.

adj

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
   She had a rustic, woodland air. 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
   late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
   To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature. 1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
2. Unfinished or roughly finished.
   rustic manners
3. Crude, rough.
   rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
   the manners not too polite nor too rustic 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry

noun

1. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
   The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow. 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
   The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement. 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX, in Sir Nigel
   1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
2. A noctuoid moth.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.