different between cowboy vs llanero

English

Etymology

cow +? boy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??b??/

Noun

cowboy (plural cowboys)

1. A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
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. (Britain, informal) A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
5. (card games, slang) A playing card of king rank.

Hypernyms

• cowhand
• cowperson
• cowpoke

Coordinate terms

• cowgirl

Derived terms

• cowboys and Indians
• drugstore cowboy
• milk-bar cowboy
• rhinestone cowboy

Related terms

• cowman
• cowherd

Descendants

Translations

See also

• cattleman
• buckaroo

Verb

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.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Danish

Etymology

From cowboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?wb?j/, [?k??w?b??j]

Noun

cowboy c (singular definite cowboyen, plural indefinite cowboys or cowboyer)

1. cowboy

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “cowboy” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cowboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?.b?i?/
• Hyphenation: cow?boy

Noun

cowboy m (plural cowboys, diminutive cowboytje n)

1. cowboy

Derived terms

• cowboyhoed
• cowboykapitalisme
• cowboylaars

Finnish

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?boi?/, [?k?u?bo?i?]

Noun

cowboy

1. cowboy (person who attends cattle, especially in the American West)

Declension

Synonyms

• lehmipoika (humorous)
• karjapaimen (person who attends cattle in general)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaw.b?j/, /ko.b?j/

Noun

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. Alternative spelling of cow-boy

Hungarian

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?uboj]
• Hyphenation: cow?boy
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

cowboy (plural cowboyok)

1. cowboy

Declension

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Noun

cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyer, definite plural cowboyene)

1. a cowboy (most senses)

   cowboyer og indianere - cowboys and Indians

References

• “cowboy” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Noun

cowboy m (definite singular cowboyen, indefinite plural cowboyar, definite plural cowboyane)

1. a cowboy (most senses)

   cowboyar og indianarar - cowboys and Indians

References

• “cowboy” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. Alternative spelling of caubói

Spanish

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Noun

cowboy m (plural cowboys)

1. cowboy

Swedish

Etymology

From English cowboy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka??b?j/

Noun

cowboy c

1. cowboy

Usage notes

The plural form could also be cowboys.

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish llanero, from llano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???n?????/, /lj???n?????/

Noun

llanero (plural llaneros)

1. A plainsman; a South American cattle-herder or cowboy, especially in Venezuela and Colombia.
   • 2018, Wim Klooster, Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History, NYU Press (?ISBN), page 164:

     The fugitive slaves and their descendants who formed the bulk of the llaneros of Venezuela initially chose the royalist side.

Spanish

Etymology

From llano (“plain”) +? -ero.

Pronunciation

Noun

llanero m (plural llaneros)

1. (South America, chiefly Venezuela, Colombia) plainsman, cowboy, llanero