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buckaroo

[buhk-uh-roo, buhk-uh-roo] Origin

buck·a·roo

[buhk-uh-roo, buhk-uh-roo]
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 buck1 + -eroo
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buckaroo (ˈbʌkəˌruː, ˌbʌkəˈruː)
 
n , pl -roos
(Southwestern US) a cowboy
 
[C19: variant of Spanish vaquero, from vaca cow, from Latin vacca]

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buckaroo
1889, Amer.Eng., from bakhara (1827), from Sp. vaquero "cowboy," from vaca "cow," from L. vacca. Spelling altered by influence of buck.
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