farmboy
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farmboy (plural farmboys)
- A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
- (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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boy who works on a farm
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