Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
A farmer, peasant, or countryman.
Modern meaning
A rude, ill-mannered person.
Research lens
Useful for the archive's class-lens shelf because it shows rural role language collapsing into manners insult.
Meaning trail
Root
farmer
The social role came first.
Older sense
peasant or countryman
Class placement, not personality, did the early work.
Now
rude person
Status prejudice hardened into manners language.