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Vaquero

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Spanish.
Noun
  1. 1
    A cowboy; a herdsman. Southwestern, US

    "A day or two before a number of vaqueroes set out for the Santa Cruz Mountains and lassoed a very big grizzly."

  2. 2
    local names for a cowboy (‘vaquero’ is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and ‘buckaroo’ is used especially in California) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Spanish vaquero (“cowherd”), from vaca (“cow”). Doublet of buckaroo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Vaquero, from vaquero (“herdsman”).

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