ploughboy

'As ignorant as a ploughboy,' is a phrase fallen into disuse.

Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times 1851

Dennis did not mind being called a ploughboy a bit.

Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes Amy Walton 1873

Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy.

Bleak House 2007

Let us concede that the high-born Grig rode into the entrenchments at Sobraon as gallantly as Corporal Wallop, the ex-ploughboy.

The Book of Snobs 2006

I have no false pride, as many men of high lineage like my own have, and, in default of better company, will hob and nob with a ploughboy or a private soldier just as readily as with the first noble in the land.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.

The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork.

The Newcomes 2006

The proverbial ploughboy singing the psalms at his work as Tyndale put it.

Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London 2005

I do not wish to make an idol of the Shorter Catechism; but the fact of such a question being asked opens to us Scotch a great field of speculation; and the fact that it is asked of all of us, from the peer to the ploughboy, binds us more nearly together.

Memories and Portraits 2005

“Here,” said the ploughboy, “is something for you — from the master.”

Madame Bovary 2003