cowgirl

cowgirl

English

Mildred Douglas, world champion lady bronco buster (1918)

Etymology

cow +‎ girl

Pronunciation

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Noun

cowgirl (plural cowgirls)

1. A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
2. A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
3. (card games, slang) A playing card of queen rank.
4. A sex position where the woman is on top; cowgirl position.

Synonyms

• (woman tending cattle): dudess (dated), dudette
• (sex position): woman-on-top

Hypernyms

• cowhand
• cowperson
• cowpoke
• cowpunch

Coordinate terms

• cowboy

Derived terms

• cowgirl boot
• cowgirl hat
• reverse cowgirl
• reverse cowgirl position

 

Translations

A woman who tends free-range cattle

Chinese: Mandarin: 女牛仔 (nǚniúzǎi) Esperanto: vakerino Finnish: lehmityttö French: vachère (fr) f German: Kuhhirtin (de) f, Cowgirl (de) f Italian: mandriana (it) f Japanese: カウガール (kaugāru) Macedonian: говедарка f (govedarka), краварка f (kravarka) Portuguese: vaqueira (pt) f Romanian: văcăriță (ro) f, văcăreasă (ro) f Russian: ско́тница (ru) f (skótnica), пасту́шка (ru) f (pastúška) Scots: coolass Spanish: vaquera f Ukrainian: корівни́ця f (korivnýcja)

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker‎, MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN

Verb

cowgirl (third-person singular simple present cowgirls, present participle cowgirling, simple past and past participle cowgirled)

1. (rare, intransitive) To work as a cowgirl, herding cattle.
   • 1998, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

     She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work.

   • 2007, American Cowboy (volume 13, number 5, Jan-Feb 2007, page 56)

     Only 250 miles down the road a reclusive beauty named Joann Brebner was living the bucolic life, cowgirling, helping out at her family's remote ranch-based resort.

2. (rare, transitive) To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position.
   • 2016, Angela Goodnight, My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:

     Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]