Some Cowboy words and phrases to make your Cowboy Christmas party complete
Ace in the hole: a hideout, a hidden gun
Acorn Calf: a weak runty calf
Air in Lungs: cussin'
All Horns and Rattles: fit of temper
Apple: saddle horn
Among the willows: dodging the law
Arkansas toothpick: a large knife
Auger: the big boss
Axle grease: butter
Bad medicine: bad news
Bait: food
Bake: to overheat a horse
Baldface Dishes: china dishes
Band Wagon: a peddlers wagon
Bangtail: a mustang
Banjo: a miners term for a short-handled shovel
Bar Dog: a bartender
Barefoot: an unshod horse
Bark: to scalp
Barking at a Knot: trying the impossible
Base Burner: a drink of whiskey
Bay: a horse of light red color
Bean Master: a camp cook
Bear Sign: doughnuts
Bed Ground: where cattle are held at night
Bed Him Down: to kill a man
Beef Tea: shallow water where cows have stood
Belly Cheater: a cook
Belly Robber: a cook
Belly Through the Brush: dodge the law
Belly Wash: weak coffee
Bending at the Elbow: drinking whiskey
Bible: cigarette papers
Big Jump: death
Big Pasture: the penitentiary
Big sugar: ranch owner
Biscuit: saddle horn
Biscuit Roller: a cook
Biscuit Shooter: a cook
Bite the Ground: to be killed
Black-Eyed Susan: a cowboy's six-gun
Black Snake: a long whip
Black spot: shade
Black Water: coffee
Blue Belly: a Yankee
Blue Lightnin': a six-gun
Boggy Top: a pie with no top crust
Boil Over: a horse that starts bucking
Bone Orchard: cemetery
Boogered Up: crippled
Boston Dollar: a penny
Brain Tablet: a cigarette
Broken Wind: a lung infection in horses
Brown Gargle: coffee
Bucket of Blood: a tough saloon
Buffer: traders name for buffalo
Buffaloed: confused
Bug juice: whiskey
Bull Nurse: a cowboy
Bumblebee Whiskey: whiskey with a sting
Burn the Breeze: ride at full speed
Burro Milk: nonsense
Caboodle: the whole thing
Cahoots: partnership
Calf slobbers: meringue
California Collar: a hangman's noose
California Prayer Book: a deck of cards
Callin': courtin'
Can Openers: spurs
Cash in: to die
Catalog Woman: mail order bride
Catgut: a rope
Cat Wagon: wagon carrying women of less than honorable intentions
Chew Gravel: thrown from a horse
Choke Strap: a necktie
Chuck: food
Chuck Wagon Chicken: bacon
Clean his Plow: beat up in a fight
Cold Meat Wagon: a hearse
Cookie: camp cook
Corral Dust: Lies and tall tales
Cottonwood Blossom: a man lynched from the limb of a tree
Cowboy Cocktail: straight whiskey
Cow Salve: BUTTER
Crawl his Hump: to start a fight
Crumb Castle: chuck wagon
Crumb Incubator: a cowboy's bed
Curry the Kinks Out: break a horse
Cut a Rusty: to go a courtin'
Cut his Suspenders: a departed cowboy
Desert Canary: a burro
Dice House: bunkhouse
Didn't Have a Tail Feather Left: broke
Diggers: spurs
Ditty: a which I ma call it
Dive: bunkhouse
Dough-Belly: cook
Doughgods: biscuits
Down to the Blanket: almost broke
Dream Book: cigarette papers
Dusted: thrown from a horse
Eatin' Irons: knives,forks,spoons
Equalizer: a pistol
Excuse me ma'am: a bump in the road
Fandango: a dance
Fiddle: a horses head
Fill a Blanket: roll a cigarette
Flannelmouth: a talkative person
Flea Trap: bedroll
Gambler's Ghost: a white mule
Gelding Smacker: a saddle
Getting Long in the Tooth: getting old
Grubworm: cook
Hair in the Butter: a delicate situation
Hot Rock: a biscuit
Lead Plumb: a bullet
Lincoln Skins: greenbacks
Lizzy: a saddle horn
Lookin'at the Mule's tail: plowing
Look to See: investigate
Lynching Bee: a hanging
Mail-Order Cowboy: a tenderfoot
Mexican Strawberries: dried beans
Monkey Ward Cowboy: a tenderfoot
Mule's Breakfast: a straw bed
Neck Oil: Whiskey
Paintin' his Nose: getting drunk
Pair of Overalls: two drinks of whiskey
Play a Lone Hand: do something alone
Pop Skull: whiskey
Porch Percher: a town loafer
Pot Rustler: cook
Prairie Dew: whiskey
Prairie Tenor: coyote
Puddin' Foot: an awkward horse
Put on the Nose Bag: to eat
Round Browns: cow chips
Saddle Bum: a drifter
Sage Hen: a woman
Savvy: knowledge or understanding
Singin' to Em': standing night guard
Smoke Wagon: a six-gun
Snuffy: a wild or spirited horse
Squeezing the Biscuit: holding the saddle horn
Stretching the Blanket: telling a tall tale
Stringing a Whizzer: telling a tall tale
Swamp Seed: rice
Talking Iron: a six-shooter
Tear Squeezer: a sad story
Techy as a Teased Snake: grumpy
Texas Cakewalk: a hanging
To Much Mustard: a braggart
Uncorkin' a Bronc: breaking a horse
Unshucked: draw a gun
War Bonnet: a hat
Wasp Nest: light bread
Whistle Berries: beans