单词 | ploughboy |
释义 | ploughboyplowboyn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1544 |
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