plowboy

[ plou-boi ]

noun

1. a boy who leads or guides a team drawing a plow.
2. a country boy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of plowboy¹

First recorded in 1560–70; plow + boy

Example Sentences

He cut off a couple of pounds of raw bacon and put it in my pocket together with a "bait" of Plowboy tobacco.

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Then he went to bed, and whether from the widow's blessing, or the air of the place, he slept like a plowboy.

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The plowboy shouted in the sun, and in the purple new- turned furrows flocks of birds hunted for fat worms.

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There was a plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

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The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.

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