cowboy

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) Short for 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

cowboy anim

1. cowboy

   Synonyms: unai, behizain

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

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 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /kaw.bɔj/, /ko.bɔj/

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cowboy m (plural cowboys, feminine cowgirl)

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

From English cowboy.

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

cowboy (plural cowboyok)

1. cowboy

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	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
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

• 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.

• Hyphenation: cow‧boy

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. Alternative spelling of caubói

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
• saloon
• vilda västern (“the Wild West”)

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