ploughboy
Britishnoun
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a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
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any country boy
Example Sentences
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There are any number of devious plot complications that involve a sea monster, help from the gods and the heroic ministrations of a ploughboy, Giustino.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2022
I am no shepherd, No mountain-dweller, I am not a ploughboy, Uncouth and stinking of cattle.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018
It was this idea that drove the exceptional linguist and Oxford scholar William Tyndale to risk and eventually lose his life so the ploughboy might read the Bible in his own language.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011
Baron Snell, a onetime ploughboy, stable groom and potman who later became a Fabian Socialist and is chairman of the British Ethical Union led the Labor Opposition's attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was ridiculous that young Cupid should be breeched for the bidding of a lubberly half-baked ploughboy.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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