Sunday, February 03, 2008
Agrestic
Agrestic describes an uncouth rural character. I came across a few of those down at the rugby sevens last weekend, that's for sure. Their tendency towards agrestic behaviour was directly in relation to how much beer they had consumed. But that's half the fun of it, I guess. Your meanings for agrestic were interesting and if I had a poll I'd choose Merriam, Sandra Dodd and Stephen. I'll see if I can find another poll then.
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Agrestic is the adjective you use to describe an actor whose character is a better person than him.
An agrestic person is one who, when being aggressive, likes to do it with a touch of panache or flair.
Gustav flounced up to the truck driver and, swung his fist round in the air several times like Popeye, before clocking him one on the nose.
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Agrestic literally means acting like a farmer when one isn't, but it applies to city-dwellers who fantasize themselves great organic farmers and back-to-the-land people when they don't even have a speck of dirt to plant a flower in. The most annoying agrestic trait is trying to dictate how those who DO have land should use it, even when those others are still on the land, not "back to" the land..
Agresticism is common in New York City and other large U.S. cities, and I live in New Mexico, so that's probably why I know the term and have such a harsh opinion of the whole deal.
Agrestic literally means "resistant to change." Today, an agrestic is the tool scrapbookers use to loosen dried, yellowed, non-archival pastes and gluesticks. The agrestic slides ever so gently between the non-archival adhesive and the photo paper and saves the photo. Scrappers have a tendancy to get very attached to their agrestics and jokingly refer their husbands as a "real agrestic" who tend to resent their addiction to the "cropping til' they drop" hobby--doesn't really fit, but they've got to have something to talk about while they crop!
An agrestic is someone who is allergic to silver. Contact with any silver item will cause their nose to twitch uncontrollably.
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Agrestic is a term sometimes used among grocery market employees to refer to people who carefully and endlessly look over the fruits and vegetables, seemingly unable to find anything that is suitable, and often finally leaving without buying anything at all.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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