What does cowboy mean?
Cowboy means A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West..
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/ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ/ · noun
A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West..
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
Derwood Bailey cowboyed for 50 cents a day, a noon meal, and a gallon of oats for his horse.
Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.
I still had never ridden or cowboyed, and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.
Use cowboy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cowboy means A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West..
Common synonyms include cowpoke, puncher, cattleman, cowhand.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
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