buckaroo
/ˌbʌkəˈɹu/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cowboy; specifically, a working cowboy who generally does not participate in rodeos.
American usage
name
A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Example Sentences
- "No thanks, cowboy. If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of buy me liquor, I'd have been an alcoholic long ago. Pullin' bulls off of you buckaroos is just my job. So save your money for your next entry fee, cowboy."
- "Many cowboy poets have a buckaroo look and feel about them."
- "Don’t run in looking for a fight like some kind of buckaroo."
- "That’ll be twenty buckaroos, buddy."
- "I've got five buckeroos on this one, Sarge. Is there such a thing as an enlisted man in the Navy wearing an Army uniform? I say no!"
- "“Thirty-five buckeroos per weekly?” I ask. “Well, that is thirty more than I used to get when I was a young man"
Etymology
Modified from Spanish vaquero (“cowboy”), with the spelling influenced by buck (“(noun) male antelope, deer, etc.; adventurous or high-spirited young man; (verb) of a horse, etc.: to leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward”). Doublet of vaquero. cognates * Early Medieval Latin vaccārius (“cowherd”) * French vacher * Late Latin baccalārius (“landless serf; cowherd (?)”) (Merovingian)
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌbʌkəˈɹu/
- British English: /ˌbʌkəˈɹuː/