farm boy
18
1.7
- noun
- /fɑrm bɔɪ/
:
muchacho de granja
- Growing up as a farm boy, he learned how to handle animals and crops from a young age.
And who did they find but a young, impressionable farm boy from Illinois named Clyde Tombaugh.
- And who did they find but a young, impressionable farm boy from Illinois named Clyde Tombaugh.
- But the George X Virgil grew up is a is a farm boy near Montova in northern Italy.
- And so you're, you become a good old Kentucky farm boy.
- Most of the guys there were from Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, just good old boys, a bunch of farm boys and stuff.
- You know, farm boy with the broad shoulders, with the farmer's hand, and he got working in the fields.
- North Florida and the swamps farm boy.
- He goes on and says every farm boy sings, that every young girl that dreams of love knows it, but it's not a thing that the masters of Roque are familiar with.
Examples
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And he feels that because he's a farm boy from Illinois and he grew up on a small farm.
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A farm boy in an Irish-American family, committed to calloused hands and rigorous rules.
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- Keep it down, farm boy.
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"Let it roll off you, farm boy," Easy said.
Fiction book (1998) -
Land is owned by no one and everyone; therefore, as the farm boy said, Pa says I can play there.
Fiction book (1997) -
Officer, I'm just an old farm boy.
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But nothing else about Morgan reflected his early years as a farm boy.
Fiction book (1992) -
A big Nebraska farm boy, he had a friendly, easy disposition.
Fiction book (2001) -
In my town in upstate New York, a soft spoken farm boy named Archie Sweeney has just been drafted.
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I was the typical farm boy, complete with ankle-high brogans, drawl, and a double-breasted suit in a single-breasted era.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
How Rural
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a boy who lives or grew up on a farm' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'farm' (a tract of land used for agriculture) with 'boy' (a male child). This simple noun–noun composition is a common, literal pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Farm boy is the image of a farm and a boy who grows up there and does chores like feeding animals and working the fields. Because of that simple picture, calling someone a farm boy usually means they have a 'rural upbringing' and are used to 'hard work'.