farmboy

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English

Etymology

From farm +‎ boy.

Noun

farmboy (plural farmboys)

  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. (informal) A man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity.
    He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart.
    • 1988 April 16, Rex Wockner, “We Only Went Out Five Times”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Even if I wear shit-kicker boots, faded Levi's and a flannel shirt, something about me betrays too many years around universities. In the same clothes, you exuded farmboy simplicity and innocence.

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