The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PEASANTS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PEASANTS
- Game flappers not hot for louts
- . Doctor sent ASAP for farm workers
- What toffs shoot, short-of-height bumpkins
- Some game husband’s left out for country folk
- Land workers have way up to vegetable hospital
- They may be left out of congenial society
- Game not hot for country folk
- People farming small-scale little vegetables and animals
- Yokels given fine, overlooking pounds and shillings
- ‘Pastoral events’ would misrepresent this problem in the country
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The straight part
We know that "country folk" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case country folk = peasants.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PEASANTS mean?
PEASANTS noun- A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
- A country person.
- An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
- (strategy games) A worker unit.