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- noun A
boy or young man who works on afarm
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Examples
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The Belgariad by David Eddings - Garion, an orphaned farmboy is accompanied by his aunt Polgara and grandfather Belgarath as they try and fulfill an ancient prophecy that will decide the fate of the universe.
Ten Fantasy Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008
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John Prime schemes to make lots of money with pop inventions (like the Rubik's Cube) that don't exist in farmboy John's world.
[UPDATED] REVIEW: 2006 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees 2007
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John Prime schemes to make lots of money with pop inventions (like the Rubik's Cube) that don't exist in farmboy John's world.
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Slender body in overalls looks like some kind of farmboy fetish thing.
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This was a man who never sat while he ate – the farmboy ran too deep inside his chalky Minnesota belly — but watching him sweat like some Haute Fromagier over a bonded slab of Parmesan in an East-Side Trattoria, scraping the sands of brown sugar onto a paper plate, then surgically distributing his treasure perfectly equally over ever parsec of Cracker Soup Surface Area, made me love him even more.
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Andy, their gardener, is a former farmboy whose father lost the family place due to debt.
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For example, do they reject your farmboy protagonist as whiny and prefer your scoundrel sidekick character?
Writing Question: Unlikable Protagonists odysseyworkshop 2009
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A simple farmboy named Westley is lost at sea, but goes on to become the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Top 10 Movies Ruined by a Female Presence » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Luke Skywalker is the inexperienced farmboy with a destiny to become a legend.
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Even more than that, however, the key to its longevity may well lie in how it plied the metaphorical underpinnings of that question to maximum effect, with Clark's journey from farmboy to journalist to superhero -- and all the false starts encompassed therein -- playing in parallel to the same struggles all of us go through as we make that uneasy transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Zaki Hasan: Smallville - The Complete Series: Myth, Metaphor, and the Man of Steel Zaki Hasan 2011
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