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Discover LudwigThe phrase "farm boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a young male who works on a farm or has a rural upbringing.
Example: "He grew up as a farm boy, learning the value of hard work and responsibility from a young age."
Alternatives: "rural youth" or "country lad."
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Farm boy.
3. The farm boy.
He was a hardworking farm boy.
"I'm a farm boy," he explained.
* * * My father was a farm boy from Rockingham, North Carolina.
Not bad for a poor farm boy from Idaho.
So our Illinois farm boy climbs and keeps on climbing.
For an Indiana farm boy, it has been pretty good".
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The other, Edward Kienholz, was a bearish farm boy-artist with a peppery temperament.
Yet "he put on a false front of confident ease and farm-boy garrulousness" to raise the troops' morale.
We never quite believed that Indiana farm-boy legend in 1940, but we don't doubt a syllable of it now.
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