FromSpanishvaquero(“cowherd”), fromvaca(“cow”).Doublet ofbuckaroo.

vaquero (pluralvaquerosorvaqueroes)

1. (Southwestern US) Acowboy; aherdsman.
   • 1925,Quarterly of theSociety of California Pioneers,page232:

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

   • 1997, Jane Clements Monday, Betty Bailey Colley,Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches,University of Texas Press,page ix:

     Voices from the Wild Horse Desert is the story ofvaquero families who have lived and worked on the prominent King and Kenedy Ranches of South Texas for six generations.Vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) are the highly skilled work force that cares for and works the cattle day by day.

   • 2013,Philipp Meyer,The Son, Simon & Schuster, published2014, page11:

     Of course thevaqueros do not help: because of his weight and his high voice they call him Don Castrado behind his back.

   • 2015, Danilo H. Figueredo,Revolvers and Pistolas,Vaqueros and Caballeros: Debunking the Old West‎^[1],ABC-CLIO (Praeger), page50:

     Cattle drives became common between Mexico and California and Mexico and Texas.Vaqueros were the drivers. In time, asvaqueros worked for a particular ranch or within the confines of a particular territory, regional styles evolved. In essence, two types were prominent: that of the Californiavaquero and that of thevaquero from Texas.
     The Texasvaquero was identified as a free spirit, lived out in the open range, and went from ranch to ranch as work opportunities surfaced. The Californianvaquero remained loyal to a ranch or ranching family.

• caballero
• charro

Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinvaccārius.

• IPA^(key): /baˈkeɾo/[baˈke.ɾo]

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• Rhymes:-eɾo
• Syllabification:va‧que‧ro

vaquero (femininevaquera,masculine pluralvaqueros,feminine pluralvaqueras)

1. cowboy

vaquero m (pluralvaqueros)

1. cowherd,cowboy

   Synonyms:gaucho,huaso,llanero

2. (in theplural)jeans

   Synonyms:tejanos,pantalones vaqueros,pantalón vaquero

   vestidos convaqueros ―dressed injeans

3. a kind of bird:
   1. squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana)

      Synonyms:aguatudo,cuapaxcle,cuco ardilla,cuco ardilla común,chicura,chile ancho,guaco,pájaro bobo,piscoy,ticuyo colorado

   2. laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)

      Synonyms:guace,guaco,guaco vaquero,guaicurú,halcón guaco,halcón reidor,halcón risueño,halieto,llamanorte,pájaro caballero,pájaro vaquero,valdivia

   3. lesser ground cuckoo (Morococcyx erythropygus)

      Synonyms:correcamino,cuclillo chiflador,cuclillo sabanero,cuclillo terrestre,cuco bobo,escatuto,faisán,gallina boba,gallina ciega,paisano

• guaco vaquero
• pájaro vaquero
• pantalón vaquero,pantalones vaqueros
• vaquero grande
• vaquero ojirrojo

• → English:buckaroo,buckeroo

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988)A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[2],Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page487

• “vaquero”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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