Cowboy vs Desperado - What's the difference?
cowboy | desperado |
A man who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
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A man who identifies with cowboy culture, including wearing a cowboy hat and being a fan of country and western music.
(label) A person who engages in reckless behavior, especially for the purpose of showing off.
A dishonest and/or incompetent independent tradesman.
A playing card of king rank.
To work as a cowboy, herding cattle.
* 1994 , Sherry Robinson, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a hiking guide and history
* 1995 , American Cowboy (volume 2, number 4, Nov-Dec 1995, page 26)
* 2003 , C. J. Hadley, Trappings of the Great Basin Buckaroo
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
*1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
*1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
*:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
(chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
As nouns the difference between cowboy and desperado
is that cowboy is cowboy while desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west.cowboy
English
Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* cowgirlHypernyms
* cowhand * cowperson * cowpokeSee also
* cattleman * buckarooVerb
(en verb)- Besides cowboying he worked at a small sawmill that cut logs into "four slabs and a tie" and sold ties to the railroad.
- Derwood Bailey cowboyed for 50 cents a day, a noon meal, and a gallon of oats for his horse.
- I still had never ridden or cowboyed , and I wanted to learn something about it. I'd been making the damn saddles for years but didn't know how to use them.
References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----
desperado
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
