buckaroon.
U.S.
A cowboy. Also attributive.
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1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 66 These [rancheros] are surrounded by..peons and bakharas, or herdsmen.
1889 Cent. Dict. Buckayro...(Western U.S.).
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang Buckhara (American), a name given in California to a cattle-driver or cowboy.
1904 N.Y. Tribune 17 July He was herding a big bunch of cattle there with the help of half a dozen buckayros.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) 51 If you were going to be a buckeroo, you couldn't go into harder training.
1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl iv. 60 I can talk what they call ‘buckayro’ Spanish.
1916 H. 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.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill i. 10 A mere scrub buckeroo named Sandy Sawtelle.
1936 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) iv. 152 Buckaroo seems to have dropped out.
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