Reverse Dictionary: FARM

ADJECTIVES
► FARMERIC farming, farmer-like; countrified → 1867 Eng. dial.
► FARMERING farming, engaged in farming → 1892 Eng. dial.
► FARMERLY like a farmer → a1674 obs.
► FARMERY like a farmer → 1861
► OFF-HAND ► OFF-HANDED of a farm: owned by a tenant who does not reside there → 1898 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► BACK HELP assistance given reciprocally, as among farmers → 1940 Amer. dial.
► BARGAIN a small farm-holding → 1602 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BARTON a large farm, esp. the demesne lands of a manor; a farmhouse → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BOARDER an unproductive farm animal not worth its keep → 1932 Amer. dial.
► BONANZA FARM a very large and productive farm → 1878 Amer. dial.
► DIJEY a small farm or homestead → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ESTATE a farm belonging to the occupier → 1890 Eng. dial.
► FARMERING farming, the occupation of a farmer → 1895 Eng. dial.
► FARMERY 1. the buildings, yards, etc. belonging to a farm → 1656
2. the business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.; agriculture, farming → 1801
► FARMHOLD a quantity of land held and cultivated as a farm → 1449
► FARMLET a little farm → 1881
► FUND a farm → 1694 obs.
► GAINERY a farm → 1424 obs.
► GARBAGE farm produce → 1976 US sl.
► HA a farmhouse, the main dwelling of a farm; a house, esp. on a farm, occupied by the farmed himself as opposed to the cottar houses → 1721 Sc. obs.
► INTEREST a farm → 1663 US
► LABOURING a farm → 1798 Sc.
► LANDWARD TOWN a farmhouse in the depths of the country;  a country house → 1790 Sc.
► MAILING 1. a rented farm → 1452 Sc.
2. the rent paid for a farm → 1725
► MAINS the farm attached to a mansion house; a home farm → 1533 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► MERESTEAD a farm → 1620 US
► OFF-FARM a farm held by a tenant who does not reside on it → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ON-GEAR the stock on a farm; the dwellings and other appurtenances → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ONSTEADING the houses and buildings forming a farm-stead; a cluster of farm-workers’ houses or the like → 1830 Sc.
► PADDOCK a small farm → 1824 Sc.
► TILTH labour or work in the cultivation of the soil; tillage, agricultural work, husbandry → c1000
► TILTURE tilth, tillage, agriculture → 1573 obs.
► YOKELET an old name for a little farm or manor → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► ACREMAN a cultivator of the ground; a husbandman, or ploughman → c1000 obs.
► AFTERNOON FARMER a procrastinating one; hence a lazy person → 1874 Eng. sl.
► AGREGADO a farmhand or a man allowed to work for himself on part of the landowner’s soil → 1871 Amer. dial.
► ALFALFA DESPERADO a normally innocuous farmer → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► ALL-WORKS a man employed on a farm to do odd jobs → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► APPLEKNOCKER 1. an itinerant farm labourer → 1941 Amer. dial., often derogatory
2. among loggers: a farmer  → 1950 Amer. dial.
► APPLE-PICKER a fool, an unsophisticated person, a country person; a farmer → 1913 US sl.
► APRON-STRING FARMER an effeminate town-bred farmer → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ARKIE ► ARKY any poor Southern farmer, esp. a sharecropper → 20C US sl.
► BAAYLEY a farm bailiff or overlooker of labourers → 1888 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACK-BREAKER the leader of a gang of farm-labourers → 1867
► BACK-DOOR BOY a boy employed in a farm house for domestic purposes → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKWOODS JOCKEY a farmer → 1954 Amer. dial.
► BAILIE a man, boy or girl in charge of the cows on a farm → 1880 Sc.
► BAILIE-BOY a boy employed on large farms to take messages and make himself generally useful → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BAILLIE LOON a lad in charge of the cattle → 1916 Sc.
► BANG-STRAW one who threshes with a flail; also, a thatcher or any farm-worker→ 1785 
► BARN-GRIEVE one whose duty on a farm was to superintend the women outworkers and boys → c1890 Sc.
► BARTONER one who took care of and managed a farmyard; a farmer → 1832
► BENE FARMER a wealthy farmer, one who is in easy, or even in affluent circumstances → 1825 Sc.
► BENEFIT-MAN a farm servant who receives part of his wages in kind → 1839 Sc.
► BILL SHEARS a farmer; a rustic → c1920 US tramps’ usage
► BILLY TURNIPTOP an agricultural labourer → 1885 UK sl.
► BIRSEY a patronizing term for a farmer or country yokel; someone who looks depressed or unwell → 1997 Ulster sl. (Bk.)
► BLOCKIE a small farmer → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BONNET-LAIRD a yeoman, one who farms his own land; one who farmed land as tenant, in its natural state and at a nominal rent, for a long lease, sometimes of 99 years → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOO-MAN the cattleman on a large farm → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOSMAN a farmer → 1864 sl. (Bk.)
► BOSS COCKY a farmer who employs labour → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BOTHIER a farm servant living in a ‘bothie’ (cottage) → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOUNDE a husbandman, a peasant, a serf → c1320 obs.
► BOWER the manager of a dairy on a dairy-farm → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOWMAN a cottager; a ploughman; a cattleman on a farm → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRIAR HOPPER ► BRIER HOPPER a poor farmer or worker; a rustic → 1940 Amer. dial.
► BRIER HEISTER a poor farmer or worker; a rustic → 1967 Amer. dial.
► BULL DRIVER a rough farmer from the back country; a rustic → 1930 Amer. dial.
► BUNCHCLOT a farmer; a clodhopper → 1877
► BUTTER-AND-EGG MAN a dairyman; a provincial farmer or businessman characterized as unsophisticated or easily duped → 1867 US sl.
► CADET a young man learning sheep-farming → M19 NZ
► CARL ► CARLE a man of the common people; more particularly a countryman, a farmer → 1375 arch.
► CEDAR SAVAGE a farmer; a rustic → 1958 Amer. dial., derogatory
► CHEQUE-BOOK FARMER a farmer who is not primarily dependent on agriculture for his income → 1920s S. Afr. sl.
► CHOKECHERRY FARMER an unsuccessful farmer → 1987 Can. sl.
► CHURN-TWISTER a cowboy’s term for a farmer → 1936 Amer. dial., derogatory
► CITY SQUASH a retired male farmer → 1949 Amer. dial. jocular usage
► CLODBUSTER a farmer → 1950 US sl.
► CLOVER-KICKER a yokel; a rustic; a farmer → 1918 US sl.
► COCKATOO a small farmer → 1845 Aust. & NZ sl.
► COCKY a small farmer → 1872 Aust. & NZ sl.
► CORNCRACKER a poor White farmer; a rustic → M19 US sl.
► COUNTRY HUSBAND a farmer, a rural husbandman → 1644 obs.
► COW-BANGER a dairy farmer; a person who works on a dairy farm → 1892 Aust. & NZ sl.
► COW-COCKY a dairy farmer → 1914 Aust. & NZ sl.
► COW-FEEDER a dairy farmer → 1805
► COW-SPANKER a dairy farmer or stockman → 1906 Aust. & NZ sl.
► COW-YARD TAR a person who is both a farmer and sailor according to the season → 1905 Amer. dial.
► DAIRY QUEEN a homosexual farmer → 1960s US homosexual sl.
► DAME a wife, esp. the wife of a farmer or yeoman → 1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DIRT FARMER one who grows root vegetables, esp. a potato farmer with over 200 acres of potatoes → 1968 Amer. dial.
► DIRT-DOBBER a dirt farmer; hence, a worthless man → 1947 US sl.
► DIRT-SCRATCHER a poor farmer → 1942 US West sl.
► EARER a ploughman → 1382 obs.
► EARMAN a cultivator → c1230 obs.
► EARTHLING a ploughman; a cultivator of the soil → c1000 obs. obs.
► EARTH-TILLER a farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground → c1000 obs.
► FARMER 1. the eldest son of the occupier of a farm → a1825 Eng. dial.
2. a recently arrived Southern farm worker who persists in his country ways despite the pressing sophistication of the Northern cities → 1940s African-American sl.
► FARMER ARTERNOON a slovenly farmer, one who is always behindhand → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FARMERESS a woman who farms land; a farmer’s wife → 1672
► FARMER GILES a farmer, esp., in later use, one stereotypically characterized as rustic, simple-minded or unsophisticated → 1770
► FODDER-FORKER a farmer → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► FREE SELECTOR a farmer → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► GADMAN the man or boy who directed or guided a team of oxen by means of a gad or goad, esp. in ploughing ► a goadsman → c1450 chiefly Sc. obs.
► GADSMAN the man or boy who directed or guided a team of oxen by means of a gad or goad, esp. in ploughing ► a goadsman → 1827 chiefly Sc.  obs.
► GAFFMAN the bailiff or superintendent of a farm → 1859 Eng. dial.
► GAINOR one who occupies or cultivates arable land; a cultivator, a husbandman → 1607 obs.
► GALKABAW a girl who looks after cows → 1823 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANG-MAN the supervisor or master of a gang of field-labourers hired by a farmer → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GANG-MASTER the overseer, foreman, or head of a gang of workmen; the supervisor or master of a gang of field-labourers hired by a farmer → 1886 Eng. dial.
► GEBUR a tenant-farmer in the early English community → 1706 hist.
► GEESKIN a country bumpkin; a yokel; a farm worker; a casual labourer → 1825 Sc.
► GENTLEMAN-FARMER a country gentleman engaged in farming, usually on his own estate; a farmer who holds a better social position than the generality of his class → 1749
► GEOPONIC a practitioner of agriculture; a farmer → 1612 obs.
► GEORGIC a husbandman, a farmer, a tiller of the soil→ 1703 obs.
► GOODMAN a farmer in contradistinction to a proprietor → 1790 Sc.
► GOODWIFE a female farmer → 1825 Sc.
► GRANGER a farmer → 1877 Amer. dial.
► GRASS COMBER a farmer; a country person → 1825 UK sl.
► GREEN FARMER one who raises no stock, only crops → 1965 Amer. dial.
► GROUND PARROT a small farmer → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► GULLY JUMPER a farmer, a rustic, a countrified person → 1939 Amer. dial.
► HAA-MAIDEN a maid servant in the farmer’s house → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAB  a share-cropper; a tenant farmer → 1978 Can., derogatory
► HAGGLER the upper servant of a farm → 1883 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAIN a hind; a farm bailiff → 1880 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► HAIRLEGGER a farmer → 1996 Amer. fishermen’s usage (Bk.)
► HALF FARMER a farmer who shares his crop with landowner half and half → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HALFER a sharecropper or tenant farmer → 1970 Amer. dial.
► HALF HAND a sharecropper or tenant farmer → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HALF-LONG a half-grown lad; one engaged in farm work → 1708 Sc.
► HALF MAN a sharecropper or tenant farmer → 1967 Amer. dial.
► HALF-RENTER a sharecropper or tenant farmer → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HAND MAN a man who is employed to help with work on a farm → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HANK KELLY a farmer → 1902 US tramps’ sl.
► HAY BARBER one who works on a farm or ranch during the summer, and as a miner during the winter → 1949 Amer. dial.
► HAY-EATER a farmer → 1975 Amer. sl.  (Bk.)
► HAYFIELD LOBSTERMAN one who is both farmer and fisherman by season → 1975 Amer. dial.
► HAYFOOT a farmer; a rustic; used derisively → 1901 Amer. sl.
► HAY JOHN one who works on a farm or ranch during the summer, and as a miner during the winter → 1943 Amer. dial.
► HAY KICKER a farmer; a rustic, a countrified person, an unsophisticated person → 1941 Amer. dial.
► HAYMAKER a farmer, a rustic→ 1847 Amer. sl., esp. nautical
► HAYNECK a humorous name for a rustic; a farmer; a simple peasant → 1952 US sl.
► HAYPITCHER a farmer, a rustic → 1888 Amer. sl.
► HAY-POUNDER a farmer; a simple peasant; a rustic; a countrified person, an unsophisticated person → 1941 US sl. 
► HAYRAKER a farmer; a rustic → 1954 Amer. sl.
► HAY RUBE a farmer or rustic; a hick; an unsophisticated or boorish person → 1900 Amer. dial.
► HAY SEED a farmer → 1945 US Western sl., derogatory (Bk.)
► HAYSHAKER a farmer; a rustic, a countrified person, a bumpkin; an unsophisticated person → 1919 Amer. dial.
► HAYTOSSER a farmer, a rustic → 1607 sl.
► HEADMAN a man placed in charge of other workers, labourers, etc., esp. on a farm; a foreman, an overseer; a senior subordinate → 1725
► HEAD’S-MAN the chief labourer on a farm → 1819 Eng. dial.
► HEN WRANGLER a chore boy on a farm or ranch → 1944 Amer. dial.
► HERD-TESTER a man or woman who goes from farm to farm sampling milk to test cows for their productivity and the fat content of their milk → 1960
► HERRINGBONER a dairy farmer → 2002 NZ sl.
► HEWE a husbandman; a workman → 1886 obs. (Bk.)
► HICK an ignorant countryman; a peasant; a farmer → 1565
► HICKEY any inhabitant of the countryside; a peasant; a farmer; with derogatory implications → 1949 US sl.
► HIGH COUNTRYMAN a (male) native or inhabitant of high country; in NZ: a man working or living on a high-country farm → 1678
► HIGHLANDER a farmer → 1996 Amer. fishermen’s usage (Bk.)
► HIND 1. a bailiff or steward on a farm (in some parts of England) → 1495
2. a servant; esp., in later use, a farm servant, an agricultural labourer → 1520
► HINE a servant; esp., in later use, a farm servant, an agricultural labourer → c1230
► HIRED BOY a young farm-hand → 1913 Western Can. sl. (Bk.)
► HIRED MAN a farmhand, a labourer → 1694 Amer. dial.
► HIRE MAN a farmhand, a labourer → 1694
► HIRER a farm-servant → 1884 Sc.
► HONYOCK a rustic person; a farmer → 1875 US sl.
► HON-YOCKER a rustic person; a farmer → 1875 US sl.
► HUGE PAW a farmer; a labourer → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HUSBANDER a person who makes careful use of resources, assets, etc.; a thrifty or prudent administrator; also, a tiller of the soil, a husbandman → 1585
► HUSBANDMAN a worker who tills and cultivates the soil → c1384
► ICONOMICAR a writer on husbandry → 1523 obs.
► IDLE-MAN a man employed on a farm to do odd jobs → 1889 Eng. dial.
► JASPER a rustic, a countrified person, a farmer, a stranger → 1896 Amer. dial., often derogatory
► KAIL-BAILLIE the servant who stays home on the farm on Sunday to prepare dinner and feed and water the cattle → a1838 Sc. obs.
► LACKEY-BOY a hired hand; an odd-job man for the farm → 1992 Amer.  (Bk.)
► LAD a young male servant or employee, esp. on a farm → 1721 Sc.
► LEATHER-NECK an unskilled farm-labourer, esp. on a sheep station → 1898 Aust. sl.
► MAIDEN the title given to the eldest daughter of a farmer → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MAN ON THE LAND a farmer or other rural worker → 1911 Aust. sl.
► MASTER an employer; the head of a shop or works; the name given to a farmer by the farm labourers → 1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOLESKIN SQUATTER a working man who has come to own a small sheep run → L19 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MONTH HAND a temporary farm worker hired by the month → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MONTHLY HAND a temporary farm worker hired by the month → 1966 Amer. dial.
► MOSSBACK a settler; a homesteader; a pioneer farmer → 1883 US Western
► MOSS-FARMER the tenant of a moorland farm → 1835 Sc.
► MOSS-LAIRD the owner of a moorland form → 1835 Sc.
► MOSS-TENANT the tenant of a moorland farm → 1795 obs.
► MUCKLE-MAN the head labourer on a farm → 1790 Sc.
► NEEP a rustic, a yokel, a farm-worker → 1963 Sc. 
► NESTER a squatter; a farmer,. a small rancher → 1880 US Western sl.
► O’SULLIVAN a farmer; a rustic → 1933 sl.
► OAT-CAKE a farmer → 1914 Amer. students’ sl.
► ODD LADDIE ► ODD LADDY a youth who acts as a spare hand or odd-job man on a farm → 1947 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ODD MAN a man employed on a farm to do odd jobs; a workman who does odd jobs → 1750 Eng. dial.
► PAFFLER one who occupies a small farm → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PECKERWOOD a poor southern White, esp. a farmer → 2002 African-American sl.
► PLOUGH-JOCKEY a farmer, a rustic → 1927 Amer. dial.
► PLOWBOY a farmer, a rustic → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PLOW CHASER a farmer → 1945 US Western sl. (Bk.)
► PLOW JOCK a farmer, a rustic → 1950 Amer. dial.
► PLOW-JOCKEY a farmer, a rustic → 1927 Amer. dial.
► PLOW-PUSHER a farmer, a rustic → 1935 Amer. dial.
► PODDY a farmer → 1831 Eng. dial. obs.
► POSSUM FARMER one who lives on a farm but does no farming, only hunts and traps → 1995 Amer. dial.
► PUMPKIN-ROLLER ► PUNKIN-ROLLER a farmer → c1905 Amer. sl.
► QUARTER HAND a tenant farmer who pays usually one fourth of the crop as rent → 1967 Amer. dial.
► QUEEN STREET BUSHIE a businessman who owns a farm as an investment → 1950s NZ sl.
► QUEEN STREET COCKY a businessman who owns a farm as an investment → 1950s NZ sl.
► QUEEN STREET FARMER a businessman who owns a farm as an investment → 1950s NZ sl.
► QUOTTER a woman worker on a farm without male relations with her in the same employment → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RABBITCHOKER a farmer; unsophisticated peasant → 1950s US sl.
► RAILSPLITTER a farmer; an unsophisticated rustic → 1867 Amer. dial.
► REUBEN an unsophisticated countryman; a farmer or rustic, a countrified person; a boorish person → 1890 Amer. dial.
► RURALIST an inhabitant of the country; a farmer, a peasant → 1739
► RURICOLIST a husbandman, farmer → 1730
► SARVANT LAD a man-servant; a farm labourer → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SARVANT LASS a servant-girl working on the farm → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SARVANT MAN a man-servant; a farm labourer → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCODGE ► SCODGIE ► SCOGIE ► SCUDGIE one who does light rough or dirty work; a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm → 1782 Sc.
► SHEEP COCKY a sheep farmer on a small scale → 1949 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► SHITKICKER a farmer or other rural inhabitant → 1975 US sl. (Bk.)
► SKY FARMER a farmer without land, or with only very little land → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► SOD-BREAKER a farmer who works the soil; a farmer, a rustic → 1940 Amer. dial.
► SODBUSTER a farmer who works the soil → 1885
► SPALPEEN a common workman or labourer; a farm worker or harvester; a migratory agricultural labourer → 1780 Irish
► STRAW SAILOR a farmer who also works at lobstering → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► STRONG FARMER a prosperous farmer with a relatively large farm → 1802 Ireland
► STUBBLE-JUMPER a prairie farmer → 1961 sl., chiefly Can.
► STUMP-JUMPER a rural person; a farmer → 1936 US sl.
► SUITCASE FARMER a farmer who does not live on the land, but visits it to work or supervise work on it when necessary → 1930 Amer. dial.
► SUITCASE RANCHER a farmer who does not live on the land, but visits it to work or supervise work on it when necessary → 2003 Amer. dial.
► SWEDE-BASHER a farm worker; hence, any rustic → 1943 sl., derogatory
► TACKHEAD a stupid person; a rural farmer → 1836 US sl.
► TACKY a stupid person, a rural farmer → 1836 US sl.
► TACKYHEAD a stupid person, a rural farmer → 1836 US sl. 
► TILIE one who tills or cultivates the soil; a husbandman → c1000 obs.
► TILLMAN a man employed in tillage; a farmer, husbandman; a ploughman, a peasant; a tiller of the soil → 940 obs.
► TILLSMAN a ’tillman’ → 1561 obs.
► UNDERLOUT one who is subject or subordinate to another; an underling or servant; an inferior; the lowest boy on a farm; a lazy servant-boy → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 
► WAGGONER ► WAGONER the head among a farmer’s yearly servants; a carter; a head ploughman → 1796 Eng. dial.
► WARP-FARMER a farmer who uses ‘warp’ on his land; one who fertilizes with mud → 1799
► WOOL HAT BOY a member of the White rural working class; a small farmer; a redneck; used chiefly in reference to such a person as a political force → 1836 Amer. dial.
► WOOL HATTER a member of the White rural working class; a small farmer; a redneck; used chiefly in reference to such a person as a political force → 1986 Amer. dial.
► WOP-STRAW  a country farm-servant; a bumpkin, a rustic clown → 1876 Eng. dial.
► YAP a farmer; a rustic; a peasant → 1899 tramps’ sl., derogatory
► YARDMAN a farmer → 20C
► YAZZIHAMPER a farmer; a rustic; a fool, a sucker → 1933 criminals’ sl. obs.
► YESHUVNIK a farmer, a rustic → 1982 Jewish (Bk.)
► YOMAN ► YUMAN a person of inferior station, as a farmer → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)

VERBS
► FARMER to practise the trade or operation of farming → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FARMERY to practise the trade or operation of farming → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HUSBANDIZE to till, to cultivate → 1625
► HUSBANDRIZE to threat in the way of husbandry; to cultivate, to till → 1652 obs.
► MANISH to work a farm in a prosperous manner; to apply manure → 1893 Eng. dial.
► TAKE THE WHISKERS OFF to work for a farmer gathering the harvest → 1920s US tramps’ sl.
► TILTH to till, to cultivate → 1495 obs.