dude ranch
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dude (“inexperienced cowboy”) + ranch. 1921, see quotation below.
Noun[edit]
dude ranch (plural dude ranches)
- Synonym of guest ranch
- 1921 March, Scribner's Magazine, volume 343, number 1:
- ‘Is this Scott Lawson's dude ranch?’ soberly inquired the rider of the pinto.
- 1956, P. G. Wodehouse, 'French Leave', Barrie & Jenkins, London: 1974, p 125.
- ...I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, so I cleared off and went to America. I was there several years, doing various jobs. I was on the waterfront for a time, and I worked on a dude ranch and went prospecting with a friend of mine in the Mojave desert and ... oh, lots of things. When the war broke out, I was a waiter at a New York hotel.
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References[edit]
- “dude ranch”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “dude ranch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.