Definitions for plowboy

plowboy plow·boy

Spelling: [plou-boi]
IPA: /ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ/

Plowboy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in plowboy (bloopwy).

Definitions for plowboy

noun

  1. a boy who leads or guides a team drawing a plow.
  2. a country boy.

Origin of plowboy

First recorded in 1560-70; plow + boy

Examples for plowboy

Robert Burns was fully as unlettered and as rustic a plowboy as could be desired to prove the mighty miracle of genius.

Ideas raise the plowboy to president, and constitute the primal element of the success of men and nations.

There was a plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

It is no easy thing to be mayor and I wish I was a plowboy in the country!

And while that was not saying much for the plowboy, it was saying a good deal to the dignitary.

If a soldier fights no better than a plowboy, off with his red coat.

Then he went to bed, and whether from the widow's blessing, or the air of the place, he slept like a plowboy.

He cut off a couple of pounds of raw bacon and put it in my pocket together with a "bait" of plowboy tobacco.

The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.

The plowboy shouted in the sun, and in the purple new- turned furrows flocks of birds hunted for fat worms.

Word Value for plowboy
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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