Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy who leads or guides a team of animals in plowing.
- noun A country boy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boy who drives or guides a team in plowing; hence, a rustic boy; an ignorant country fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
boy plower , a boy who plows. - noun A
knave who helps theplowman by driving thedraught animals in front of theplow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
Etymologies
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Examples
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Looks like their hand picked plowboy is sleeping with the enemy, or have we figured out who the enemy is.
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The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.
I Say No Wilkie Collins 1856
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Oh and the jerk "plowboy", who has an account setup just to use for giving a "0" to anyone that is not as big a jerk as he is, is a moron.
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Thanks for the zero grade, "plowboy," but I am not a troll here, and you reveal your true colors when you use the "grading" system here to "punish" anyone who does not share your opinions.
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That "plowboy" was one of my high-school classmates.
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The sheep farmers are grown so great that the little man is knocked off his acres and the plowboy is out of house and home.
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The sheep farmers are grown so great that the little man is knocked off his acres and the plowboy is out of house and home.
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Other stories are brooding and cold such as Will the plowboy who works two fields and must secretly hunt in the night to feed his family a rabbit.
Archive 2008-12-01 ____Maggie 2008
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Other stories are brooding and cold such as Will the plowboy who works two fields and must secretly hunt in the night to feed his family a rabbit.
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I don't know about pissant, but plowboy has been a member for 37 weeks and 20 hours, and I see he's got a whopping five posts under his belt.
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