farmer's daughter

English

Noun

farmer's daughter (plural farmers' daughters)

1. (fiction) A stock character or stereotype of a desirable but naïve young woman who is the daughter of a farmer.

   Synonym: farm girl

   • 1965, “California Girls”, in Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), performed by the Beach Boys:

     The Midwest farmer's daughters really make you feel alright / And the Northern girls with the way they kiss / They keep their boyfriends warm at night

   • 2015 October 6, Lena Olsson, “5 ‘A first-rate whore’: Prostitution and empowerment in the early eighteenth century”, in Ann Lewis, Markman Ellis, editors, Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     This does not mean that her radical reformulation of the whore persona is entirely absent in this text – it is, for instance, in The Genuine History that Salisbury monopolizes the Prince of Wales and his two aristocratic friends by frankly declaring herself a whore (quote above), while her two colleagues are dismissed because they resort to conventional representations of female ruin, such as milliners and farmer's daughters, which deny or obscure their status as prostitutes.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see farmer,‎ daughter.