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cowboyism

noun

Etymology

From cowboy + -ism.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as cowboy — “cow + boy”
  8. suffixed as cowboyism — “cowboy + ism”

Definitions

  1. The behaviour or attitudes of cowboys.

    • It is all illusionary today — the fantasy of cowboyism, the western Yippee Syndrome of spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, of hats as large as Bangalore parasols, of boots smeared with the residue of cowlots […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA