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ploughboys

ploughboys is the plural of ploughboy.

Meaning of ploughboy

Noun

ploughboy (plural ploughboys)

  1. (historical) A boy who directed the draught animals that pulled a plough; a boy who served as a ploughman's helper.

Questions about ploughboys

What is ploughboys the plural of?
Ploughboys is the plural of ploughboy.

Words near ploughboys in the dictionary

  1. ploughbeams
  2. ploughbill
  3. ploughbills
  4. ploughbote
  5. ploughboy
  6. ploughboys
  7. ploughed
  8. ploughed a lonely furrow
  9. ploughed ahead
  10. ploughed back
  11. ploughed down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ploughboys (page history and authors); ploughboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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