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- noun Plural form of
plowboy .
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Examples
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But there were a lot of plowboys with a hankering for something stronger than Moxie after a hot day in the field, and a lot of young bucks out duding it up with their drugstore buddies.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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But there were a lot of plowboys with a hankering for something stronger than Moxie after a hot day in the field, and a lot of young bucks out duding it up with their drugstore buddies.
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Aberdeen's got strapping plowboys who'll put that piss-poor excuse for a man to shame.
White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992
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Well, that was all right for a while, though it weren't no easy thing, makin 'fighters out of a bunch of plowboys an' second an 'third sons what couldn't find the right end of a spear with both hands an' a map.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Well, that was all right for a while, though it weren't no easy thing, makin 'fighters out of a bunch of plowboys an' second an 'third sons what couldn't find the right end of a spear with both hands an' a map.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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"We'll teach you goddamned plowboys to come over here and accuse us of cheating," one of them yelled, grinding his shoe in Pusser's face.
The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser Morris, W. R. 1971
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"The negroes commence labor by daylight in the morning, and excepting the plowboys, who must feed and rest their horses, do not leave the field till dark in the evening."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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"The negroes commence labor by daylight in the morning, and excepting the plowboys, who must feed and rest their horses, do not leave the field till dark in the evening."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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His first book was bought farmers, plowboys, milkmaids, -- by every Lowlander who could scrape together three shillings to buy a treasure.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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He had sneered at the un-uniformed plowboys of the
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