bubulcitate
Oct. 10th, 2019 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordbubulcitate - n., to cry like a cowboy.
Since this appears in a 1623 dictionary (and very little else, aside from a 1678 lexicon and the OED), this doesn't mean a cowboy of the American West but a boy who is driving cows between pasture and barn. The traditional calls of a herders of pigs and geese, I've come across in the past, but not for cows. Etymology, FWIW, is Latin bubulcitāre, from bubulcus, cowherd.
(Moo.)
---L.
Since this appears in a 1623 dictionary (and very little else, aside from a 1678 lexicon and the OED), this doesn't mean a cowboy of the American West but a boy who is driving cows between pasture and barn. The traditional calls of a herders of pigs and geese, I've come across in the past, but not for cows. Etymology, FWIW, is Latin bubulcitāre, from bubulcus, cowherd.
(Moo.)
---L.
