Etymology
Origin of plowboy
Example Sentences
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Steel Hour before making his theater debut with the 1962 play Who’ll Save the Plowboy?, which won an Obie Award.
From Time • Sep. 13, 2015
When he was nine, he got his first part in a local workshop production of Who'll Save the Plowboy?
From Time Magazine Archive
Regarded as a curiosity at first, the Pottawatomie Plowboy gradually overcame most of his awkwardness and, by virtue of a lethal right uppercut, four years later won the chance to meet Johnson.
From Time Magazine Archive
So are Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at 62, and Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, at 55.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I got into New Orleans the next morning, I traded my Plowboy tobacco for a bar of laundry soap.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by Davis, James J. (James John)
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