Cowhunter

Quick meaning: Cowhunter is a noun meaning Someone from Florida who tends free-range cattle.

Meaning

Someone from Florida who tends free-range cattle.

Example Sentences

Without Amaly near to correct him, Treff slipped into the easy vernacular of a Cracker cowhunter.

The early morning fog lifted and one thousand head of cracker cattle herded by Florida cowhunters thundered across Highway 192 into Kissimmee’s Silver Spurs Arena, followed by hundreds of cowboys, cowgirls and cowchildren on horseback, buggies, covered wagons and conveyances of every description.

In fact, in Florida, cowboys prefer not to be called cowboys at all; rather, they are “cowhunters” or “crackers.” The latter epithet, according to one of Mattson’s poems, is unfairly used as a modern racial slur: It first came from Shakespeare, who used it in King John to mean “windbag” or “braggart,” before the facile processes of folk etymology reinterpreted the word as a reference to the cracking sound made by the ten- to twelve-foot bullwhips Florida cowhunters use to guide their herds.

Word Forms

• cowhunters

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, cowchild, cattleboy, ranchboy.

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