farmboy
2
2.6
- noun
- /ˈfɑrmˌbɔɪ/
:
chico de granja
- The young farmboy spent his days helping his father with the crops.
- Hey, farmboy
Examples
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He's a farmboy, not a samurai.
Blog text (27) -
A farmboy in a distant bed.
Fiction book (1994) -
Take a look at our new home, farmboy.
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"Come to see the bright lights, farmboy?" one of them called to Skarnu.
Fiction book (2002) -
And farmboy Jeb is kept awake.
Fiction book (1994) -
You're just a simple little farmboy, and the rest of us are all sophisticated beatniks.
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Even the farmboys back in Georgia come to the door when they're taking you on a date.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm gonna call the new act Dainty June and Her Farmboys.
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Farmboys and princesses, and pirates and dragons.
Blog text (22) -
King George had Hessian mercenaries; we had patriotic farmboys—but as the conflict dragged on, the Continental Army came increasingly to rely on full-time soldiers.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
25
1.1
A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
18
1.7
A boy who grew up living and working on a farm
8
3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
5
1.6
A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
1
3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
A boy who guides animals pulling a plow on a farm
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word farmboy comes from farm 'a place where food is grown or animals are kept' and boy 'a young male', so it means a boy who lives or works on a farm.