Farmboy
noun, slang
noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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