英和和英

名詞

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.

   Hypernyms: farmhand, farmworker < person

   Coordinate term: farmgirl

2. (informal) A man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity.

   Hypernyms: man < person

   Coordinate terms: countryman; farmgirl, countrywoman

   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.

関連する語

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