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n. - A young person who leads the animals that draw a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

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  • Looks like their hand picked plowboy is sleeping with the enemy, or have we figured out who the enemy is.
  • The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.
  • That "plowboy" was one of my high-school classmates.
  • Oh and the jerk "plowboy", who has an account setup just to use for giving a "0" to anyone that is not as big a jerk as he is, is a moron.
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