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cowboying

cowboying is the present participle and gerund of cowboy.

Meaning of cowboy

Verb

cowboy (third-person singular simple present cowboys, present participle cowboying, simple past and past participle cowboyed)

  1. (intransitive) To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
    • Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.1994, Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history

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Phrases with cowboying

Questions about cowboying

What is cowboying the present participle and gerund of?
Cowboying is the present participle and gerund of cowboy.

Words near cowboying in the dictionary

  1. cowboy tea
  2. cowboy up
  3. cowboy-hatted
  4. cowboyed
  5. cowboyed up
  6. cowboying
  7. cowboying up
  8. cowboyish
  9. cowboyism
  10. cowboyitis
  11. cowboylike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowboying (page history and authors); cowboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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