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Catchword for “cowboy”

Catchword: cowboy

Filed under: English, Trinidad & Tobago

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: COWBOY—A quick bath using little water. Based on the premise that cowboys hardly bathed and did so sparingly. To “sponge” off. Ah know some of you all take this while running late for a class. Ah hope yuh doh still be VAMPIN’(smelly)!

Article or document title:
“Trini words for the WEEK” (URL)

Author:
“John Ashley Sammerson”

(This author is either a pseudonym or is not clearly named in the original source.)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Usenet: soc.culture.caribbean

Date of publication:
Feb. 20, 1992

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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