farmboy

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.

Hypernyms

• farmhand, farmworker

Coordinate terms

• farmgirl

Related terms

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

Translations

boy who works on a farm

• Danish: bondedreng c (owner's son), bondesøn c (owner's son), karl c (young adult, employee)
• Dutch: boerenjongen (nl) m, boerenzoon (nl) m
• French: garçon de ferme (fr) m
• Spanish: chico del campo m, niño de la provincia m, niño campesino m