cowboying
SayKOW-boy-ing/ˈkaʊˌbɔɪɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of cowboy.
After college he went cowboying across the high plains for several seasons.
Cowboying in winter means breaking the ice on water troughs before dawn.
Note
A noun turned verb, and an intransitive one: you cowboy, but you do not cowboy something. The -ing form works both as a participle (he was cowboying all summer) and as a noun for the job itself (cowboying is hard work). The verb carries the ranch-work meaning of herding cattle. The noun's looser senses, the reckless show-off and the British informal word for a shoddy tradesman, stay with cowboy as a noun.
cowboying is a form of cowboy
cowboy, verb: To work as a cowboy, herding cattle on the open range. Full entry
- Spelling
- cowboy → cowboying: add -ing
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with cowboying, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.