farmlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

farmly (comparative more farmly, superlative most farmly)

1. (nonstandard) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a farm; farmlike.
   • 1915, Orchard and Farm Consolidated with Irrigation - Volume 27:

     Mary & John McDormant, country gentlemen residing in farmly surroundings of gt^[sic] beauty near Piute Falls, Chicago. When I arrive up there I observe chicken & duck-rooster swimming in ponds amidst Nature doing so very prettily everywheres.

   • 1990, George Bush:

     Lastly, I'd like to take my case to the American people on what we call farmly values — family values — [laughter] — not in a contentious sense.

   • 1991, Chetana Kalbagh, Women and Development:

     The rural women have been working along with the men in arable lands to supplement farmly farm labour and thereby reduce the need for and cost of hiring labour in pursuing activities.

   • 2003, D. F. Lewis, Weirdmonger:

     As the cold, moist dawns beckoned the day with the bestial howling of the Manor lapdogs, the farm-people, passing from the sensuality of their beds, went with melancholy brow and bowed neck to the fields of their stoic endeavour and the venereal cows would moo dolorously and persistently as they caught of the heavy jaws of these their tenders. Sad, but self-reliant, these erotic mortals were models of farmly perseverence^[sic] and, slow and steady, their emerald eyes would survey their property and even smile.

   • 2004, L.D. Dockery, Poetrhyme:

     “The Ole' Barn” The Ole' Barn In the field, standing alone, Leaning from past time Winds and seasons gone, Is a farmly shrine That should not be torn down, But graced to fall gently In its own time.