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单词 buckaroo
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buckaroo

[ buhk-uh-roo, buhk-uh-roo ]
/ ˈbʌk əˌru, ˌbʌk əˈru /
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noun, plural buck·a·roos.

Western U.S. a cowboy, especially a broncobuster.
Older Slang. fellow; guy.

Origin of buckaroo

1820–30, Americanism; earlier bakhara, baccaro, bucharo<Spanish vaquero, equivalent to vac(a) cow (<Latin vacca) + -ero<Latin -ārius-ary; perhaps influenced by buckra; later probably reanalyzed as buck1 + -eroo

Words nearby buckaroo

Buchner, Buchner funnel, buchu, buck, buck and wing, buckaroo, buck bean, buckboard, bucked, buckeen, bucker
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Example sentences from the Web for buckaroo

  • They go and throw every Tom, Dick, and Harry in this here cell, and some buckaroo has half tore up the mattress.

    The Dude Wrangler|Caroline Lockhart

British Dictionary definitions for buckaroo

buckaroo
/ (ˈbʌkəˌruː, ˌbʌkəˈruː) /

noun plural -roos

Southwestern US a cowboy

Word Origin for buckaroo

C19: variant of Spanish vaquero, from vaca cow, from Latin vacca
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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