Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

farmboy

/fˈɑɹmbˌɔɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English

Syllables: farm-boy
IPA: /fˈɑɹmbˌɔɪ/

17

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.

noun

A man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity.

Informal

Example Sentences

"He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart."
"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."

Etymology

From farm + boy.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

farmboys (plural)

Phrases

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

Frequently Paired Words

you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy farmgirl countryman countrywoman

Questions

How do you pronounce farmboy?: The recorded pronunciation is /fˈɑɹmbˌɔɪ/.
What does farmboy mean?: A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
Where does farmboy come from?: From farm + boy.

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