Définitions

J'aime beaucoup les mots, que ce soit en français ou dans une autre langue. Les westerns présentent généralement un vocabulaire particulier, je me suis donc amusée à rechercher certaines significations...

 

 BUCKAROO

Meaning:

Local names for a cowboy ('vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and 'buckaroo' is used especially in California)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

buckaroo; buckeroo; vaquero

Hypernyms ("buckaroo" is a kind of...):

cattleman; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher (a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback)

CIMARRON

Pronunciation (US):

• CIMARRON (noun)
  The noun CIMARRON has 2 senses:

1. a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River
2. wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

  Familiarity information: CIMARRON used as a noun is rare.

• CIMARRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Cimarron; Cimarron River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Cimarron" is a part of...):

Land of Enchantment; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)

OK; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bighorn sheep; Ovis canadensis; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep; bighorn; cimarron

Hypernyms ("cimarron" is a kind of...):

mountain sheep (any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions)

Holonyms ("cimarron" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

HENCHMAN

Pronunciation (US):

• HENCHMAN (noun)
  The noun HENCHMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who assists in a plot

  Familiarity information: HENCHMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• HENCHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who assists in a plot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

collaborator; henchman; partner in crime; confederate

Hypernyms ("henchman" is a kind of...):

accessary; accessory (someone who helps another person commit a crime)

RAMROD

Pronunciation (US):

• RAMROD (noun)
  The noun RAMROD has 3 senses:

1. a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm
2. a harshly demanding overseer
3. a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm

  Familiarity information: RAMROD used as a noun is uncommon.

• RAMROD (noun)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A harshly demanding overseer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ramrod" is a kind of...):

overseer; superintendent (a person who directs and manages an organization) et donc Foreman, ou contremaître en français !

REAL McCOY

(1 sense as a noun)
Informal usage attributing authenticity : une expression que l'on entend souvent !

SHAVER

Pronunciation (US):

• SHAVER (noun)
  The noun SHAVER has 3 senses:

1. an adult male who shaves
2. a young person of either sex
3. a razor powered by an electric motor

  Familiarity information: SHAVER used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHAVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adult male who shaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shaver" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Sense 2 (souvent entendu en parlant d'un bébé,"little shaver" !)

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

youngster; tiddler; nipper; minor; kid; child; nestling; shaver; small fry; tike; fry; tyke

Context examples:

she writes books for children / they're just kids / 'tiddler' is a British term for youngsters

Hypernyms ("shaver" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a youthful person)

Meronyms (parts of "shaver"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shaver"):

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)

sprog (a child)

silly (a word used for misbehaving children)

kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)

poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((offensive) a Black child)

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

kiddy (a young child)

imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)

foster child; foster-child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)

changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)

buster (a robust child)

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)

TUMBLEWEED

• TUMBLEWEED (noun)
  The noun TUMBLEWEED has 4 senses:

1. any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
2. prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
3. bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
4. bushy plant of western United States

  Familiarity information: TUMBLEWEED used as a noun is uncommon.

• TUMBLEWEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tumbleweed" is a kind of...):

weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)

Liens :
Dictionary