villagery

[ vil-ij-ree ]

noun

1. villages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of villagery¹

First recorded in 1580–90; village + -ry

Example Sentences

But there is a great irony here: villagery is a trope more applicable to those making the accusation than to those being snarked upon.

From Time

A fairy, in another passage, asks Robin: “Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery, ***** Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?”

From Project Gutenberg

The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?

From Project Gutenberg

You cannot proceed a mile without starting a steeple, with its little patch of villagery round it, enverduring the waste.

From Project Gutenberg

Are you not he     That frights the maidens of the villagery,     Skims milk, and sometimes labours in the quern,     And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn;     And sometimes makes the drink to bear no harm,     Misleads night wanderers, laughing at their harm?

From Project Gutenberg