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Farm boy

noun

A boy who has grown up on a farm.

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"Farm boy" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a difference of more than twenty years in their respective ages—and found her at dinner in the large old farm-house kitchen. At all events she was presiding, the others present being her son, their hired labourer, the farm boy, and two unmarried daughters. She herself tasted no food. I joined them at their meal, and it gladdened and saddened me at the same time to be with this woman, for she was Caleb's sister, and was ...

— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson

... England Puritan stock, Worth had come through the hard life of a poor farm boy with two dominant elements in his character: an almost super-human instinct for Good Business, inherited no doubt, and an instinct, also inherited, for religion. The instinct for trade, from much cultivation, ...

— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright

... discovery that they had come to the part of the field where Walter was working. He was red to the ears, but Bessie could tell from the way he was looking at Dolly that the city girl, with her smart clothes and her pretty face, had already made a deep impression on the farm boy. Now as the two girls approached, he looked at them sheepishly, standing first on one foot, ...

— The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm - Or, Bessie King's New Chum • Jane L. Stewart

Words linked to "Farm boy" : male child, boy