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sodbuster
[< sodbust, q.v. + -er]
Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a farmer, especially a farmer who raises field crops rather than livestock.
See: sodbust
Quotations
1922
"Between your fine words I figger that you pick up a dollar now an' again by tottin' these tenderfoot sod-busters out over the bald-headed."
1959
It is on the subject of pioneers -- trailbreakers, bushwhackers, sodbusters, homesteaders -- that the slick "free enterprise" propagandist . . . waxes most eloquent. . . .