different between cowboy vs redneck

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

Compound of red +? neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dn?k/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
2. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (Britain, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

Translations

References