Posts Tagged ‘vernacular’

Buckaroo Lingo

January 25, 2016
Jolyn Young

Every subculture has its own lexicon. In the buckaroo world, we often use phrases that originated with livestock and just apply them directly to human usage in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism. Here are several common cowboy phrases that have wandered away from the barn and gotten tangled up in everyday vernacular. Ganted up: When […]