Farmboy

noun, slang

noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
  2. 2
    A man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity. informal

    "He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart."

Example

More examples

"Now in his late 60s, one of American agriculture's notable contrarians is more rumpled and thicker in the waist than he was as a Kansas farmboy, coasting through what he calls one of the most misspent youths in the history of the planet."

Etymology

From farm + boy.

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