cowboy

cow +‎ boy

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/

cowboy (plural cowboys)

1. A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
   • 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:

     There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”

2. A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
3. (informal) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
4. (Britain, informal) A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
5. (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.

• cowhand
• cowperson
• cowpoke

• cowgirl

• cowboys and Indians
• rhinestone cowboy

• cowman
• cowherd

• cattleman
• buckaroo

cowboy (third-person singular simple present cowboys, present participle cowboying, simple past and past participle cowboyed)

1. (intransitive) To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
   • 1994, Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history

     Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.

   • 1995, American Cowboy (volume 2, number 4, Nov-Dec 1995, page 26)

     Derwood Bailey cowboyed for 50 cents a day, a noon meal, and a gallon of oats for his horse.

   • 2003, C. J. Hadley, Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo

     I still had never ridden or cowboyed, and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

Borrowed from English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑu̯.bɔi̯/

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• Hyphenation: cow‧boy

cowboy m (plural cowboys, diminutive cowboytje n)

1. cowboy

• cowboyhoed
• cowboykapitalisme
• cowboylaars

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑu̯boi̯/, [ˈkɑu̯bo̞i̯]

cowboy

1. cowboy (person who attends cattle, especially in the American West)

• lehmipoika (humorous)
• karjapaimen (person who attends cattle in general)

• IPA^(key): /kaw.bɔj/, /ko.bɔj/

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cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. Alternative spelling of cow-boy

From English cowboy

cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyer, definite plural cowboyene)

1. a cowboy (most senses)

   cowboyer og indianere - cowboys and Indians

• “cowboy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English cowboy

cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyar, definite plural cowboyane)

1. a cowboy (most senses)

   cowboyar og indianarar - cowboys and Indians

• “cowboy” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. Alternative spelling of caubói

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. cowboy

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊ̯bɔj/

cowboy c

1. cowboy

The plural form could also be cowboys.