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单词 ploughboy
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ploughboyplowboyn.

Brit. /ˈplaʊbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ/
Forms: see plough n.1 and boy n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plough n.1, boy n.1
Etymology: < plough n.1 + boy n.1
A boy who leads the animal or animals drawing a plough, a boy who drives a plough; (hence more generally) a boy from a rural labouring class, a country boy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman > controller of draught animals
driverc1390
plough driver?c1475
gadsman?a1500
ploughboy1544
goadster1837
forelooper1863
1544 in York Wills (1902) VI. 216 To every one of my ploughe boyes xijd.
1569 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 254 To every ploughe boy and other boyes servinge within my house sixe shillinges eighte pence.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. C2v Let clownes and plowboyes, and those that worke in the fieldes, pray for braue dayes, wee worke in a drie shop, what care I if it raine.
1636 H. Peacham Coach & Sedan sig. E2v Hee would have made a plough-boy of mee.
1663 J. Beale in R. Boyle Corr. 2 Oct. (2001) II. 144 It may be you have heard of one Hercules, Who in late yeares in some parts of Germany taught all sorts of people, Men, clownes, & plough-boyes.
1724 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §4 A ploughboy, that has..seen nothing but thatched houses, and his parish church, is naturally led to imagine that thatch belongs to the very nature of a house.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 20 He..was ruddy..with..flaxen hair, a little flapp'd hat, a kersey-frock, yarn stockings; in short, a perfect plough-boy.
1779 Mirror No. 25. ⁋7 One of the best-looking plow-boys had a yellow cape clapped to his Sunday's coat to make him pass for a servant in livery.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 255 If I do not, by the means of that Grammar, enable any Plough-Boy of sound mind to write English as correctly in one year [etc.].
1853 W. G. Simms Sword & Distaff xxx. 212 You're not to carry a good plough-boy off, to find bait for you when you're a-fishing.
1903 Spectator 28 Nov. 903/2 The plough~boy figures on the prehistoric rock carvings of the Maritime Alps,..using the goad, while the ploughman guides the plough... With the use of horses the ploughboy has disappeared, except where the land is so heavy that he has to lead the extra horse.
1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. i. 234 There were precious few men of whatever rank born in the Southern countryside before 1900 who had not some time served as plow-boys.
1995 Newsweek 27 Nov. 22/2 A group of tourists ridiculed our bus driver. They yelled, ‘Hey, plowboy, ain't ya got no terbacker fer us?’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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