farmboy
noun
farmboy is a noun meaning “A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-M-B-O-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farmboy is farmboys.
What does farmboy mean?
noun
- 1
A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
- 2
informalA man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity.
He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farmboy?
Farmboy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farmboy
- farmboys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farmboy?
Farmboy appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Farmboy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense boy who works on a farm:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | garçon de ferme |
| Spanish | chico del campo, niño de la provincia, niño campesino |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does farmboy come from?
From farm + boy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).