cowpoke

Other forms of cowpoke

plural

cowpokes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowpoke

What does cowpoke mean?

cowpoke means "a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback".

How many syllables are in cowpoke?

cowpoke has 2 syllables: cow-poke. The stress falls on "cow".

What is another word for cowpoke?

Close synonyms include cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cowpoke a common word?

cowpoke is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.