| 单词 | farmer boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfarmer boy C1. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is a farmer’ (in sense 4a), as in farmer boy, farmer lad, etc. ΚΠ ?1795 New Songs of Ring's End 8 Suppose now my husband's a farmer lad. 1802 S. J. Pratt Poor (ed. 2) ii. 44 When farmer-gentleman and lady miff. 1854 G. W. Curtis Lit. & Soc. Ess. (1894) 5 The farmer-boy—sweeping with flashing scythe through the river meadows. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song i. 44 You could go never a road but farmer billies were leaning over the gates, glowering at the weather. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. iv. 24 Red baseball caps, which is the standard North Dakota farmer-boy hat. 2010 N. MacGregor Hist. World in 100 Objects xxviii. 179 From the Russian Steppes to the Atlantic, there were merely small communities of farmer-warriors, connected across thousands of miles by trade, by exchange and frequently by war. < as lemmas |
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