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farmboy

noun

Etymology

From farm + boy.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as farmboy — “farm + boy”

Definitions

  1. A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child…

    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.

    • He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA