Dictionary

farmboy en · NOUN

Etymology

From farm + boy.

Meanings

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.
   • 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. 1988 April 16, Rex Wockner, “We Only Went Out Five Times”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

Forms

Coordinates

countryman · countrywoman · farmgirl · farmgirl

Hypernyms

farmworker · person · person · man · farmhand

Relateds

you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy

Translations (9)

da bondedreng (boy who works on a farm) · nl boerenzoon (boy who works on a farm) · es niño campesino (boy who works on a farm) · nl boerenjongen (boy who works on a farm) · da bondesøn (boy who works on a farm) · fr garçon de ferme (boy who works on a farm) · da karl (boy who works on a farm) · es niño de la provincia (boy who works on a farm) · es chico del campo (boy who works on a farm)