cowboy
English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy (countable and uncountable, plural cowboys)
- 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 […].”
- A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
- (informal) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
- (Britain, informal) A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
- (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.
- (uncountable) Short for cowboy pool.
Hypernyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- all hat and no cowboy
- canteen cowboy
- cocaine cowboy
- cocksucking cowboy
- cowboy action shooting
- cowboy beans
- cowboy boot
- cowboy butter
- cowboy caviar
- cowboy chord
- cowboy church
- cowboy coffee
- cowboy-hatted
- cowboy killer
- cowboy load
- cowboys and Indians
- cowboy shot
- cowboy shower
- cowboy steak
- cowboy supper
- cowboy tea
- cowboy up
- drugstore cowboy
- milk-bar cowboy
- Queen's cowboy
- rhinestone cowboy
- singing cowboy
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: cowboy
- → Dutch: cowboy
- → Estonian: kauboi
- → Finnish: cowboy
- → French: cow-boy, cowboy
- → Vietnamese: cao bồi
- → German: Cowboy
- → Greek: καουμπόι (kaoumpói)
- → Hungarian: cowboy
- → Japanese: カウボーイ (kaubōi)
- → Khmer: ខោវប៊យ (khaowbɔɔy), ខូវប៊ (khəwbɔɔ)
- → Korean: 카우보이 (kauboi)
- → Mandarin: 牛仔 (niúzǎi) (calque)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: cowboy
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: cowboy
- → Polish: kowboj
- → Portuguese: caubói, (Portugal) cobói, (unadapted form) cowboy
- → Russian: ковбо́й (kovbój)
- → Armenian: կովբոյ (kovboy)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kàuboj, ка̀убој
- → Spanish: cowboy
- → Swedish: cowboy
- → Thai: คาวบอย (kaao-bɔɔi)
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
cowboy (third-person singular simple present cowboys, present participle cowboying, simple past and past participle cowboyed)
- (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.
References[edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Basque[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy anim
Declension[edit]
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | cowboy | cowboy-a | cowboy-ak |
ergative | cowboy-k | cowboy-ak | cowboy-ek |
dative | cowboy-ri | cowboy-ari | cowboy-ei |
genitive | cowboy-ren | cowboy-aren | cowboy-en |
comitative | cowboy-rekin | cowboy-arekin | cowboy-ekin |
causative | cowboy-rengatik | cowboy-arengatik | cowboy-engatik |
benefactive | cowboy-rentzat | cowboy-arentzat | cowboy-entzat |
instrumental | cowboy-z | cowboy-az | cowboy-ez |
inessive | cowboy-rengan | cowboy-arengan | cowboy-engan |
locative | — | — | — |
allative | cowboy-rengana | cowboy-arengana | cowboy-engana |
terminative | cowboy-renganaino | cowboy-arenganaino | cowboy-enganaino |
directive | cowboy-renganantz | cowboy-arenganantz | cowboy-enganantz |
destinative | cowboy-renganako | cowboy-arenganako | cowboy-enganako |
ablative | cowboy-rengandik | cowboy-arengandik | cowboy-engandik |
partitive | cowboy-rik | — | — |
prolative | cowboy-tzat | — | — |
Further reading[edit]
- "cowboy" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cowboy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy c (singular definite cowboyen, plural indefinite cowboys or cowboyer)
Declension[edit]
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | cowboy | cowboyen | cowboys cowboyer |
cowboyerne |
genitive | cowboys | cowboyens | cowboys' cowboyers |
cowboyernes |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “cowboy” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (plural cowboys, diminutive cowboytje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy
- cowboy (person who attends cattle, especially in the American West)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of cowboy (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | cowboy | cowboyt | ||
genitive | cowboyn | cowboyiden cowboyitten | ||
partitive | cowboyta | cowboyita | ||
illative | cowboyhin cowboyhyn |
cowboyihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | cowboy | cowboyt | ||
accusative | nom. | cowboy | cowboyt | |
gen. | cowboyn | |||
genitive | cowboyn | cowboyiden cowboyitten | ||
partitive | cowboyta | cowboyita | ||
inessive | cowboyssa | cowboyissa | ||
elative | cowboysta | cowboyista | ||
illative | cowboyhin cowboyhyn |
cowboyihin | ||
adessive | cowboylla | cowboyilla | ||
ablative | cowboylta | cowboyilta | ||
allative | cowboylle | cowboyille | ||
essive | cowboyna | cowboyina | ||
translative | cowboyksi | cowboyiksi | ||
abessive | cowboytta | cowboyitta | ||
instructive | — | cowboyin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
- lehmipoika (humorous)
- karjapaimen (person who attends cattle in general)
Further reading[edit]
- “cowboy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (plural cowboys, feminine cowgirl)
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy (plural cowboyok)
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | cowboy | cowboyok |
accusative | cowboyt | cowboyokat |
dative | cowboynak | cowboyoknak |
instrumental | cowboyjal | cowboyokkal |
causal-final | cowboyért | cowboyokért |
translative | cowboyjá | cowboyokká |
terminative | cowboyig | cowboyokig |
essive-formal | cowboyként | cowboyokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | cowboyban | cowboyokban |
superessive | cowboyon | cowboyokon |
adessive | cowboynál | cowboyoknál |
illative | cowboyba | cowboyokba |
sublative | cowboyra | cowboyokra |
allative | cowboyhoz | cowboyokhoz |
elative | cowboyból | cowboyokból |
delative | cowboyról | cowboyokról |
ablative | cowboytól | cowboyoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
cowboyé | cowboyoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
cowboyéi | cowboyokéi |
Possessive forms of cowboy | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | cowboyom | cowboyaim |
2nd person sing. | cowboyod | cowboyaid |
3rd person sing. | cowboya | cowboyai |
1st person plural | cowboyunk | cowboyaink |
2nd person plural | cowboyotok | cowboyaitok |
3rd person plural | cowboyuk | cowboyaik |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- cowboy in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyer, definite plural cowboyene)
- a cowboy (most senses)
- cowboyer og indianere - cowboys and Indians
References[edit]
- “cowboy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyar, definite plural cowboyane)
- a cowboy (most senses)
- cowboyar og indianarar - cowboys and Indians
References[edit]
- “cowboy” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (plural cowboys)
- Alternative spelling of caubói
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (plural cowboy)
Declension[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English cowboy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy m (plural cowboys)
Usage notes[edit]
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.
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowboy c
- cowboy
- Synonym: (humorous) cowboysare
Usage notes[edit]
The plural form could also be cowboys.
Declension[edit]
Declension of cowboy | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cowboy | cowboyen | cowboyer | cowboyerna |
Genitive | cowboys | cowboyens | cowboyers | cowboyernas |
See also[edit]
- vilda västern (“the Wild West”)
References[edit]
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- British English
- en:Card games
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- en:Male people
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