barnyard
barnyard — noun
- barnyardsingular
- barnyardsplural
1. The outdoor area next to a barn or other farm building, often fenced in, where f
The outdoor area next to a barn or other farm building, often fenced in, where farm animals are kept or outdoor tasks are carried out.
The children helped their grandfather sweep the barnyard after the cows came in for milking.
collocation: sweep the barnyard
Shirin found three brown eggs in the barnyard while feeding her grandmother's chickens.
preposition: in the barnyard
A muddy barnyard separates the red dairy barn from the vegetable garden.
During the rainy season, water collects in puddles across the barnyard near the pig enclosure.
The old wooden gate to the barnyard needs new hinges after all these years.
用法筆記
Usually refers to a specific enclosed area on a farmstead, not the wider farmland or open fields.
barnyard — adjective
- barnyardpositive
- more barnyardcomparative
- most barnyardsuperlative
1. Describing humour, language, or entertainment that is rude in a rough and unsoph
Describing humour, language, or entertainment that is rude in a rough and unsophisticated way, with a focus on bodily functions or sexual content.
The audience walked out when the comedian began his barnyard routine about farm animals.
register: informal — barnyard humour
Gabriel told his brother that the barnyard jokes at the party were embarrassing for everyone.
collocation: barnyard jokes
The film received a warning for barnyard language that was unsuitable for young children.
Eleni asked the teenagers to stop telling barnyard stories at the dinner table.
- refined
polite and sophisticated in taste or humour
用法筆記
This sense is informal and relatively uncommon in everyday speech. It appears mostly in reviews or discussions of comedy, films, and entertainment. It is almost always used attributively before a noun (e.g. barnyard humour, never 'that humour is barnyard').