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Uplandish

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Up`land´ish
a.1.Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
2.Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.
His presence made the rudest peasant melt,
That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt.
- Marlowe.
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The disquisition consists of an astonishingly vivid portrait of a north-country labourer, 'the barbarous uplandish Jenking with torne hose, and clouted bootes, foule shurt, and thredbare bonet, long lockes, and crumpled handes, and gryned, scurvy countenaunce' (sig.
The healing dialogues of doctor Bullein by Maslen, R.W. / Yearbook of English Studies
The martyrologist does emulate Tyndale as he understands him when he assimilates Jack Upland, another Lollard satire, into his encyclopedic collection as an ancient treatise compiled by Geoffrey Chaucer by way of a dialogue or questions moved in the person of a certain uplandish and simple plowman of the country.
"The Light of Printing": William Tyndale, John Foxe, John Day, and ... by KING, JOHN N. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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