Heard Around the Bunkhouse #2 – Old West Terms
Sunday, January 5th, 2020 at
7:05 am
In our feature Heard Around the Bunkhouse we bring you Old West terms and sayings that they used back in the Old West. Hope you enjoy them, and send us your favorite terms from those past times.
FISH – A cowboy’s rain slicker. Slicker was manufactured by a company whose trademark was a fish.
RICH – Amusing, funny, improbable.
BILK – Cheat.
THE WHOLE KIT AND CABOODLE – The entire thing.
BAZOO – Mouth as in “Shut your big bazoo.”
GONER – Lost, dead.
*Courtesy of Chronicle of the Old West newspaper, for more click HERE.
Filed under: Old West Slang
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