a. and sb. Also 4–5 vplondische, -isshe, -ysche, -ysshe, 6 vplandis(s)he, -ys(s)he, etc. [f. UPLAND sb.1 and 2 + -ISH. Cf. OE. uplendisc, MDa. oplændisk ‘Swedish’ (Da. oplandsk uplandish), MSw. upländsker, uplenzsker, etc. (Sw. uppländsk) of Uppland (also = Swedish), Icel. upplenzkr of Upplönd in Norway.]
† 1. Of persons: = UPLAND a.1 1. Obs.
Very common in the 16th c., freg. in the sense of ‘rustic rude, uncultivated, boorish.’
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 159. Vplondisshe men [L. rurales homines] wil likne hym self to gentil men. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XIV. xlix. (Tollem. MS.). Or þis name rus þe uplondische men haue þat name and ben clepid rustici.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 512/2. Vplondysche mann, villanus.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, Prol. A ij. This present booke is not for a rude vplondyssh man to laboure therin … but onely for a clerke.
1529. More, Dyaloge, IV. Wks. 257/2. Now was thys doctrine in Almaine of the comen vplandishe people … plesauntly harde.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 167. The fair fatte truthe, that the uplandyshe or homely and plain clubbes of ye countree dooen use.
1592. Greene, Upst. Courtier, C 1 b. Shamste thou not vplandish vpstart to heare me discourse thy imperfections?
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 155. The Grecians…, especially that rusticall and uplandish companie, began to flie.
1647. Ward, Simple Cobler, 76. An uplandish Rusticke [may speak] more in one word than himselfe … understands.
† b. Characteristic of, pertaining to, rustics. Obs.
1534. Whitinton, Tullyes Offices, II. (1540), 113. Glory and fame before rychesse: customes … of cyties before uplandisshe customes.
1565. Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., 147. The vnsemely dwelling and vplandish rudenesse of the inhabitants.
† c. Of bees: Wild. Obs.–1
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 65. Others [sc. bees] againe are altogether wilde, vplandish, and agrestiall.
2. Of places: UPLAND a.2 1. Now rare.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., I. 197. No drede Crist wente to smale uplondishe touns, as to Bethfage and to Cann.
1513. Life Henry V. (1911), 110. All other were lodged in vplandish cots, such as they coulde finde.
1568. Withals, Dict., 37 b/2. The vplandish house or dwelling place, villa, tugurium.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. iv. (Arb.), 157. In any vplandish village or corner of a Realme, where is no resort but of poore rusticall or vnciuill people.
1622. Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 66. In Towns and Villages which be in the high uplandish Countries.
1642. Declar. Lords & Com. Stat. 5 Hen. IV., 4. All such as do lodge strangers in uplandish Towns.
[1784. Cullum, Hawsted, 220, note. These [districts] used to be called uplandish, a term that implied an inferiority in civilization.]
1906. Gasquet, Eng. Mediæval Parish Life, ii. 41. A small, uplandish, remote parish … on the borders of Exmoor.
† 3. Of ground: = UPLAND a.2 2. Obs.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 118. xv. myles space of vplandyshe grounde, where the sea had no passage.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 88. Then far of vplandish we doe view thee fird Sicil Ætna.
† b. = UPLAND a.2 2 b, 2 c. Obs.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 128. Whether there be any ditlerence, as concernynge the fether of … a fennye goose, or an vplandish goose.
1623. Markham, Cheap Husb. (ed. 3), 53. For his hay, you shall see that it be dry short vplandish hay.
† 4. Outlandish, foreign. Also as sb., foreign speech. Obs.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, II. 23. You chop so much vplandish in your tale that by my troth, I scantly vnderstand the halfe of it.
1589. Rare Tri. Love & Fort., IV. (Roxb. Cl.), 122. Bomelio. You are de runaway from your ma’ter…. Lentulo. I a runnaway, sirra? goe with your uplandishe, goe.
1607. Heywood, Faire Maide Exch., E 4. He had … made some scuruy quaint collection Of fustian phrases, and vplandish wordes.
1609. W. M., Man in Moone, C 3. Natiue apparell will not content him, he flieth for vplandish fashions.
Hence Uplandishness, rare–0.
1530. Palsgr., 285/2. Uplandysshnesse, ruralite.
