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cow-puncher

cow-puncher is the alternative form of cowpuncher.

Meaning of cowpuncher

Noun

cowpuncher (plural cowpunchers)

  1. (informal) A cowboy
    • The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1

Forms of cow-puncher

pluralcow-punchers

Questions about cow-puncher

What is cow-puncher the alternative form of?
Cow-puncher is the alternative form of cowpuncher.

Words near cow-puncher in the dictionary

  1. cow-pats
  2. cow-pilot
  3. cow-pilots
  4. cow-piss drinker
  5. cow-piss drinkers
  6. cow-puncher
  7. cow-punchers
  8. cow-tastrophe
  9. cow-tastrophes
  10. cow-tree
  11. cow-trees

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