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buckaroo
[
buhk
-
uh
-roo
,
buhk-
uh
-
roo
]
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buck·a·roo
/
ˈbʌk
əˌru
,
ˌbʌk
əˈru
/
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[
buhk
-
uh
-roo
,
buhk-
uh
-
roo
]
Show IPA
noun,
plural
-roos.
1.
Western U.S.
a cowboy, especially a broncobuster.
2.
Older Slang
.
fellow; guy.
Origin:
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
buck
1
+
-eroo
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World English Dictionary
buckaroo
(ˈbʌkəˌruː, ˌbʌkəˈruː)
—
n
,
pl
-roos
(
Southwestern US
) a cowboy
[C19: variant of Spanish
vaquero
, from
vaca
cow, from Latin
vacca
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
buckaroo
1889, Amer.Eng., from bakhara (1827), from Sp. vaquero "cowboy," from vaca "cow," from L. vacca. Spelling altered by influence of buck.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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