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The Cowboy and His Interpreters choose

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[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 13: About two hours before dawn the cook would shout out ‘Chuck!’ and the boss [...] might yell, ‘Breakfast, boys! Damn you, get up!’.
at chuck, n.3
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 17: The range came to expect and recognize the ‘mail-order cowboy,’ who arrived already fitted in cowboy-wear as he knew it from his reading and the assurances of some Middle Western store-keeper.
at mail-order cowboy, n.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 26: The Colt pistol was referred to as a gun, sometimes as a ‘cutter’.
at cutter, n.2
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 57: Mounted on a ‘cutting pony’ that was a ‘Joe-dandy,’ he made a figure for his boss.
at joe dandy, n.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 218: A dishpanful o’ something that smelled so much like peace an’ joy that even Ebenezer quits fluffin’ about bein’ asleep.
at fluff, v.1
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 129: Daugherty and one of his cowboys, John Dobbins, were riding at the head of the herd when fifteen or twenty jayhawkers came upon them.
at jayhawker, n.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 40: The ‘jug-head’ seemed never to remember his hazing of the day before.
at jughead, n.1
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 40: He’s the kind of horse with a far-away look. Some folks call ’em locoed.
at locoed (adj.) under loco/loca, adj.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 85: The cattlemen annually manufactured an Indian scare [...] to discourage the immigration of ‘nesters’.
at nester, n.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 160: Then he cuts his thinkin’ picket-rope, and drifts all over the hull mental prairie until he gits plumb tuckered out.
at tuckered (out), adj.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 222: Rootin’ Tootin’, look w’at this yere old locoed Santa Claus brung us.
at rooting-tooting, adj.
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 12: There were times when the steer would get spooky and mad.
at spooky, adj.1
[US] D. Branch Cowboy and His Interpreters 35: ‘Shanghai’ was one of the many cattlemen that traded occasionally in ‘wet ponies.’.
at wet, adj.3
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