vacher

English

Etymology

From French vache (“a cow”). Compare vaquero.

Noun

vacher (plural vachers)

1. (US, Southwestern) A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vacher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• chaver, varech

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *vaccārius, from Latin vacca (“cow”). Akin to Catalan vaquer, Franco-Provençal vachier, Occitan vaquièr, Italian vaccaio, Romanian văcar, Portuguese vaqueiro, Spanish vaquero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ʃe/

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Noun

vacher m (plural vachers, feminine vachère)

1. cowherd

Synonyms

• cow-boy

See also

• bouvier

Anagrams

• varech

Further reading

• “vacher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.