cowgirl

cow +‎ girl

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cowgirl (plural cowgirls)

1. A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
2. A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
3. (card games, slang) A playing card of queen rank.
4. A sex position where the receptive partner is on top; the cowgirl position.
5. The receptive partner in the cowgirl position.

• (woman tending cattle): dudess (dated), dudette
• (sex position): woman-on-top

• cowhand
• cowperson
• cowpoke
• cowpunch

• cowboy

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker‎, MGI/Mike Caro University, →ISBN

cowgirl (third-person singular simple present cowgirls, present participle cowgirling, simple past and past participle cowgirled)

1. (rare, intransitive) To work as a cowgirl, herding cattle.
   • 1998, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West:

     She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work.

   • 2007, American Cowboy (volume 13, number 5, Jan-Feb 2007, page 56)

     Only 250 miles down the road a reclusive beauty named Joann Brebner was living the bucolic life, cowgirling, helping out at her family's remote ranch-based resort.

2. (rare, transitive) To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position.
   • 2016, Angela Goodnight, My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:

     Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]