upˈlandish, a. and n.
Also 4–5 vplondische, -isshe, -ysche, -ysshe, 6 vplandis(s)he, -ys(s)he, etc.
[f. upland n.1 and n.2 + -ish. Cf. OE. uplendisc, MDa. oplændisk ‘Swedish’ (Da. oplandsk uplandish), MSw. upländsker, uplenzsker, etc. (Sw. uppländsk) of Uppland (also = Swedish), Icel. upplenzkr of Upplönd in Norway.]
† 1. Of persons: = upland a.1 1. Obs.
Very common in the 16th c., freq. in the sense of ‘rustic, rude, uncultivated, boorish’.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 159 Vplondisshe men [L. rurales homines] wil likne hym self to gentil men. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. xiv. xlix. (Tollem. MS.), Of þis name rus þe uplondische men haue þat name and ben clepid rustici. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 512/2 Vplondysche mann, villanus. 1490 Caxton Eneydos Prol. A ij, This present booke is not for a rude vplondyssh man to laboure therin..but onely for a clerke. 1529 More Dyaloge iv. Wks. 257/2 Now was thys doctrine in Almaine of the comen vplandishe people..plesauntly harde. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 167 The fair flatte truthe, that the uplandyshe or homely and plain clubbes of y⊇ countree dooen use. 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier C 1 b, Shamste thou not vplandish vpstart to heare me discourse thy imperfections? 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 155 The Grecians.., especially that rusticall and uplandish companie, began to flie. 1647 Ward Simple Cobler 76 An uplandish Rusticke [may speak] more in one word than himselfe..understands. |
† b. Characteristic of, pertaining to, rustics. Obs.
| 1534 Whitinton Tullyes Offices ii. (1540) 113 Glory and fame before rychesse: customes..of cyties before uplandisshe customes. 1565 Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 147 The vnsemely dwelling and vplandish rudenesse of the inhabitants. |
† c. Of bees: Wild. Obs.—1
| 1608 Topsell Serpents 65 Others [sc. bees] againe are altogether wilde, vplandish, and agrestiall. |
2. Of places: = upland a.2 1. Now rare.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 197 No drede Crist wente to smale uplondishe touns, as to Bethfage and to Cana. 1513 Life Hen. V (1911) 110 All other were lodged in vplandish cots, such as they coulde finde. 1568 Withals Dict. 37 b/2 The vplandish house or dwelling place, villa, tugurium. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. iv. (Arb.) 157 In any vplandish village or corner of a Realme, where is no resort but of poore rusticall or vnciuill people. 1622 Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 66 In Towns and Villages which be in the high uplandish Countries. 1642 Declar. Lords & Com. Stat. 5 Hen. IV, 4 All such as do lodge strangers in uplandish Towns. [1784 Cullum Hawsted 220 note, These [districts] used to be called uplandish, a term that implied an inferiority in civilization.] 1906 Gasquet Eng. Mediæval Parish Life ii. 41 A small, uplandish, remote parish..on the borders of Exmoor. |
† 3. Of ground: = upland a.2 2. Obs.
| 1551 Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. (1895) 118, xv. myles space of vplandyshe grounde, where the sea had no passage. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 88 Then far of vplandish we doe view thee fird Sicil ætna. |
† b. = upland a.2 2 b, 2 c. Obs.
| 1545 R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 128 Whether there be any difference, as concernynge the fether of..a fennye goose, or an vplandish goose. 1623 Markham Cheap Husb. (ed. 3) 53 For his hay, you shall see that it be dry short vplandish hay. |
† 4. Outlandish, foreign. Also as n., foreign speech. Obs.
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie ii. 23 You chop so much vplandish in your tale that by my troth, I scantly vnderstand the halfe of it. 1589 Rare Tri. Love & Fort. iv. (Roxb. Cl.) 122 Bomelio. You are de runaway from your ma'ter... Lentulo. I a runnaway, sirra? goe with your uplandishe, goe. 1607 Heywood Faire Maide Exch. E 4, He had..made some scuruy quaint collection Of fustian phrases, and vplandish wordes. 1609 W. M. Man in Moone C 3, Natiue apparell will not content him, he flieth for vplandish fashions. |
Hence upˈlandishness. rare—0.
| 1530 Palsgr. 285/2 Uplandysshnesse, ruralite. |