ploughboy

/ ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
2. any country boy

Example Sentences

There are any number of devious plot complications that involve a sea monster, help from the gods and the heroic ministrations of a ploughboy, Giustino.

From Los Angeles Times

I am no shepherd, No mountain-dweller, I am not a ploughboy, Uncouth and stinking of cattle.

From The New Yorker

How fortunate we are to have these tales, which tell in part that By the time he was 16 years old in 1841, he had already been a runaway, a cook, a scullion, a cabin boy, almost a printer, a cotton-picker, a ploughboy, a gin-driver and it seems a gentleman of leisure, which means I guess he had no employment whatsoever.

From Forbes

Sometimes she wished that some homely fisherman or ignorant ploughboy had rescued her.

From Project Gutenberg

If he had been a fisherman or a ploughboy it would not have mattered, and she would not have cared.

From Project Gutenberg