Word.ws English Dictionary

plowboy

plowboy is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of plowboy

pluralplowboys

Origin of plowboy

From plow + boy.

Questions about plowboy

What is plowboy the alternative spelling of?
Plowboy is the alternative spelling of ploughboy.

Words near plowboy in the dictionary

  1. plowback
  2. plowbacks
  3. plowbeam
  4. plowbeams
  5. plowbote
  6. plowboy
  7. plowboys
  8. Plowden
  9. Plowdens
  10. plowed
  11. plowed ahead

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plowboy (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-plowboy.oga.

Cite this entry: “plowboy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plowboy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.