1. an area of ground next to or around a barn, typically enclosed and used for keeping farm animals

1. relating to or characteristic of a barnyard or farm life
2. crude, vulgar, or indecent in language or behavior
Usage: informal

Examples

• The chickens wandered freely around the barnyard.
• She collected eggs from the henhouse in the barnyard each morning.
• The old barnyard was muddy after the heavy rain.
• He told barnyard jokes that made everyone laugh.
• The children enjoyed the barnyard animals at the petting zoo.
• His barnyard humor wasn’t appropriate for the dinner party.
• The barnyard smelled of hay and livestock.