farmer's daughter

Agricultural patriarch's child

A farmer's daughter is literally the female child of someone who farms.

The phrase appears in countless bawdy jokes—the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter—where she represents rural innocence ripe for seduction.

This folk archetype has made the phrase slightly suggestive even in neutral contexts.

Related

barn · agrarianism · archetype · plow · rolling hills · ballad · gender roles · harvest · kinship · romance · coming-of-age · Sunday dress · county fair · tradition · traveling salesman · dirty joke · storytelling · nostalgia

Categories
  • farmer's ___
Opposites
rural vs. urban origin

farmer's daughtercity girl

Female urban dweller

townie · suburbanite · city slicker · city dweller · urbanite

social class/cultural milieu

farmer's daughterdebutante

Formally introduced young woman

heiress · socialite · princess · trust fund baby · blue blood

Family

farmer, daughter, farm, farms, farmed, farming, farmland, farmhouse, farmyard

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG