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Cowboy 78: A few words were borrowed from the Chinook jargon of the coastal trappers and traders [...] ‘muckamuck’ (food, or to eat or to drink).at muck-a-muck, n.
Cowboy 78: A few words were borrowed from the Chinook jargon of the coastal trappers and traders [...] ‘muckamuck’ (food, or to eat or to drink). Cowboy 76: The outlaw he began to throw talk. The ranger he said: ‘Don’t act up. Be sensible and come along with me.’.at act up, v.
Cowboy 80: He would ‘ante ten dollars to the church’s kitty’.at ante (up), v.
Cowboy 80: ‘Ante’ might include any payment for any purpose.at ante, n.
Cowboy 107: Thus the ‘Aunt Dinahs’ of the Southern kitchens unwittingly dictated as to what the cowboy of the West should hang about his neck.at aunt, n.
Cowboy 164: When an ummarried man, a ‘batch’ or ‘bach,’ planted a few irregular rows of onions.at bach, n.
Cowboy 286: Every rider of a ‘bad actor,’ a horse that acted viciously, was on the watch for kicks and bites.at bad actor (n.) under bad, adj.
Cowboy 108: The shirt [...] always was collarless and starchless (not ‘boiled,’ ‘biled,’ or ‘bald-faced’).at baldfaced shirt, n.
Cowboy 80: Whatever idea or physical asset was expected when ultimately put in use to bring success was one’s ‘big casino.’ In the class of big casino were included not only schemes for outwitting rivals, but also powerful weapons presumably intimidating to enemies, attractive presents supposedly irresistible by females, speedy horses assumed to be invincible in racing.at big casino, n.
(ref. to 1890s) Cowboy 77: Thus a ‘blue whistler,’ because of the pistol’s blued frame, denoted a bullet.at blue whistler (n.) under blue, adj.1
Cowboy 106: The Range knew that the city-dwellers wore also ‘hard’ or ‘hard-boiled’ hats.at hard-boiled hat (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
Cowboy 87: The Westerner, having started life when financially ‘flat broke’.at flat broke, adj.
(con. 1890s) Cowboy 28: Both South and North might betake themselves to slang and talk of ‘fuzzies’ (Range horses) and ‘broomies’ or ‘broom tails’ (Range mares).at broomie, n.
Cowboy 55: His demise was sometimes referred to as his ‘snuffing out,’ ‘bucking out,’ ‘croaking,’ ‘cashing in,’ or ‘passing in his checks’.at buck out (v.) under buck, v.4
Cowboy 70: Poker’s ‘a busted flush’ pictured plan gone awry.at busted flush, n.
Cowboy 80: Poker gave also, among other terms, [...] ‘call’.at call, v.
Cowboy 192: Look here, you dodgasted, pale pink, wall-eyed, glandered, spavined cayuse.at cayuse, n.
Cowboy 165: The cook who, if, as commonly, white, was to his face called ‘cookie’.at cookee, n.
Cowboy 80: Faro’s terms permitted one puncher to ‘keep cases’ on another man [...] and further permitted this puncher, if dissatisfied with these actions or plans, to ‘copper’ them by initiating a diametrically opposite sort of performance or scheme.at copper, v.1
Cowboy 57: The rifle, rarely the pistol, was at times discharged at wild horses [...] for the purpose of ‘creasing’ them.at crease, v.
Cowboy 81: Damn as an innocent adjective had various quizzical shades of meaning. It was, among other things, synonymous [...] with ‘very’ or ‘exactly.’ Thus ‘promptly at one o’clock’ and ‘immediately’ might severally come from a puncher’s lips as ‘at damned one’ and ‘damned now’.at damned, adv.
Cowboy 192: Look here, you dodgasted, pale pink, wall-eyed, glandered, spavined cayuse.at dod-gasted (adj.) under dod, n.1
Cowboy 192: Pete, you dog-goned, inflated, lost soul, let out that wind.at doggone, adj.
Cowboy 153: Each of such useless objects [...] particularly if it were small in size or novel in construction, was apt to be called a ‘dofunny’.at doofunny, n.
Cowboy 75: Most of the punchers, like all other old-time Westerners, merely withheld their intimacy from every stranger until the latter should fully have disclosed his nature and have established whether he were a ‘white man’ or else [...] worst of all, ‘double-distilled’.at double-distilled (adj.) under double, adj.
Cowboy 153: If he had further personal belongings – and these the West called his ‘plunder,’ as the East termed them ‘dunnage’ or ‘duffle’.at dunnage, n.
Cowboy 79: The dicer’s ‘at the very first rattle out of the box’ expressed prompt action.at first crack out of the box (adv.) under first, adj.
Cowboy 65: He still lived on horseback, but regretfully, humiliatingly refrained from [...] ‘forking’ at sight ‘anything on four hoofs’.at fork, v.1
Cowboy 80: Poker gave also, among other terms, [...] ‘freeze-out’.at freeze-out, n.
Cowboy 72: If ever I have to git married, I’m going to marry a woman what’s all over gol-durned fluffs.at goldarned, adj.
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