cowpunchern.
/ˈkaʊˌpʌn(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈkaʊˌpən(t)ʃər/ North American colloquial.
Esp. in the western United States: a cowboy. Cf. puncher n. 2.
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1873 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 4 Feb. He had a fine and elegant cultivated taste, who could combine the occupation of a cow-puncher and a ranchero with solutions of problems in Euclid.
1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd ii. 25 The cow-punchers had come in off the range.
1974 J. Brennan Parker Ranch of Hawaii (1979) v. 56 Parker Ranch rightfully boasted of having the most efficient and hard-working cowpunchers the world had ever seen.
2017 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Sept. (Late ed.) a21 The romanticized saloon gals and cowpunchers of the great American West.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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cow-puncher
cow-puncher n. U.S. a cow-driver in the western States.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd
cowherda1000
oxherd1281
geldherd1284
nowtherd1296
neatherd1301
drover1384
catcherc1400
caller?a1500
ox-boy1580
neatress1586
harrier1591
cowherdess1611
spurn-cow1614
neatherdess1648
cowgirl1753
herds-woman1818
oxman1820
ranchero1825
topsman1825
vaquero1826
herdsmaiden1829
overlander1841
cattle-herd1845
cowboy1849
buckaroo1852
stock-rider1862
pointer1869
night-herder1870
puncher1870
bull-puncher1872
outrider1872
cowpuncher1873
range man1875
cow-puncher1878
herd-boy1878
cow-girl1884
trail-herd1885
trail boss1890
nighthawk1903
point man1903
swing man1903
top hand1912
charro1926
waddy1927
cattle-puncher1928
cowpoke1928
paniolo1947
1878 S. L. Caldwell Diary 24 Apr. in Colorado Mag. (1939) 16 152 At Hugo the cow-punchers were assembling for the round-up.
1879 Tinsley's Mag. 24 354 Some of our men—‘cow-punchers’, we call them—are devoted to cards.
1889 H. O'Reilly & J. Y. Nelson Fifty Years on Trail 357 The town was full of cow-punchers, mule-whackers, etc.
1903 Forest & Stream 21 Feb. 147 A bit further on we saw some cowpunchers, or what seemed such.
1916 ‘B. M. Bower’ Phantom Herd ii. 36 A cow-puncher comes a long way from a ranger.
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