cowboy

PIE word
*gʷṓws

From cow +‎ boy. More on Wikipedia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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cowboy (countable and uncountable, 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. (British, informal) A dishonest or incompetent independent tradesman.
5. (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.
6. (uncountable) Ellipsis of cowboy pool.

• 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

From English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /kau̯boi̯/ [kau̯.β̞oi̯]
• Rhymes: -au̯boi̯, -oi̯

cowboy anim

1. cowboy

   Synonyms: unai, behizain

• “cowboy”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

From cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /kɔwbɔj/, [ˈkʰɒwˌb̥ʌj]

cowboy c (singular definite cowboyen, plural indefinite cowboys or cowboyer)

1. cowboy

• “cowboy” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑu̯boi̯/, [ˈkɑ̝u̯bo̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -ɑuboi

cowboy

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

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

• “cowboy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /kaw.bɔj/, /ko.bɔj/

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cowboy m (plural cowboys, feminine cowgirl)

1. (rare) post-1990 spelling of cow-boy

• kovboj

Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkovboj], [ˈkɒuboj]^[1]
• Hyphenation: cow‧boy
• Rhymes: -oj

cowboy (plural cowboyok)

1. cowboy

• cowboy in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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.

Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. alternative spelling of caubói / cobói

Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.

cowboy m (plural cowboy)

1. cowboy

Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkauboi/ [ˈkau̯.β̞oi̯]
• Rhymes: -auboi

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. cowboy

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Borrowed from English cowboy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊ̯bɔj/

cowboy c

1. a cowboy

   Synonyms: (humorous) cowboysare, (humorous) kobojsare

• cowboyboots
• cowboyhatt
• cowboys och indianer

• duell
• indian
• ranch
• saloon
• vilda västern (“the Wild West”)

• cowboy in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cowboy in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)