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buckaroo, buckayro U.S.
Also bakhara, buckeroo, buckhara, etc.
[Corruption of vaquero.]
A cowboy. Also attrib.
1827W. B. Dewees Let. 16 Jan. in Lett. fr. Texas (1852) 66 These [rancheros] are surrounded by..peons and bakharas, or herdsmen. 1889Century Dict., Buckayro...(Western U.S.). 1890Farmer Slang, Buckhara (American), a name given in California to a cattle-driver or cowboy. 1904N.Y. Tribune 17 July, He was herding a big bunch of cattle there with the help of half a dozen buckayros. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights 51 If you were going to be a buckeroo, you couldn't go into harder training. 1910J. Hart Vigilante Girl iv. 60, I can talk what they call ‘buckayro’ Spanish. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iv. 129 Nothing ever did worry that buckaroo as long as his fingers wasn't too cold to roll a cigarette. 1946Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) iv. 152 Buckaroo seems to have dropped out. |