Old West Words and Phrases

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Annie Lee, think you been hangin' out with some strange folks.   Are you and Slim related?

Wow, how'd you know?? He and JW and I are cousins.




AnnieLee

[Silver Creek Slim]

Russ T's dead on with "shakin' hands with grandma" ~ catching hold of the saddle horn when a horse starts bucking, and he's close with "moonshinin'" ~ working a roundup in rough country where a chuckwagon couldn't go.

Annie Lee, think you been hangin' out with some strange folks.   Are you and Slim related?

Yeah! I resemble that remark. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Don't ferget Lonegunman and I are realated as I tolt ya Slim.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

crease (as in to "crease" a horse)

bueno (as a category of cattle)

[Silver Creek Slim]

crease (as in to "crease" a horse) - stunning with a bullet

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

crease (as in to "crease" a horse) - stunning with a bullet

Slim

That's correct, Slim, but why would anyone want to do that?

crease ~ to place a rifle bullet in the top of the horse's neck, grazing the cords of the neck enough to stun the animal and knock it down so that it can be tied down before it recovers from the shock.

[Silver Creek Slim]

crease (as in to "crease" a horse) - stunning with a bullet

Slim

That's correct, Slim, but why would anyone want to do that?

crease ~ to place a rifle bullet in the top of the horse's neck, grazing the cords of the neck enough to stun the animal and knock it down so that it can be tied down before it recovers from the shock.

I have no clue. I ain't that good a shot even with a rifle.

Slim

[Russ T Chambers]

crease (as in to "crease" a horse)

bueno (as a category of cattle)

crease (as in to "crease" a horse)  As you said Slim got it.  It was a method used to catch wild mustangs.  Not very effective as they thought the rate was 1 capture to about 50 dead horses.

bueno (as a category of cattle)  good cow, as in a head of cattle found at roundup that had a brand no one claimed, and wasn't in the registry.  Like a freebee.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

You do pretty good work for a kid, Russ T.  We just might hire you on when you grow up.

[Russ T Chambers]

Let's see if the kid comes thru and gets hired.

Wood Pussy (not sexual)

Pig's vest with buttons (Delmoico?)

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Why you low down rotten polecat, er wood pussy!!!!

[Delmonico]

Since most pork that was cured and smoked back then still had the skin on it.  I would guess it was one of those slabs of bacon from a sow rather than a boar.  (Used to get those once in a while.)

[Russ T Chambers]

Let's see if the kid comes thru and gets hired.

Wood Pussy (not sexual)   skunk -  Hamp gets' it with "Why you low down rotten polecat, er wood pussy!!!!"

Pig's vest with buttons (Delmoico?) Saltpork or sowbelly  -  Del is close enough "Since most pork that was cured and smoked back then still had the skin on it.  I would guess it was one of those slabs of bacon from a sow rather than a boar.  (Used to get those once in a while.)"

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Every body out buyin' Christmas gifts?  Or, mebbe the Russ T Kid done run 'em all off.

Here's a couple more for them what already got all the presents under the tree.

stripper (not the bump and grind kind)

saddle blanket gambler

fox fire

[Delmonico]

A saddle blanket gambler is one who will set up an improptue game anywhere as on a saddle blanket.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Boy, Cap'n, I thought you'd run out words..................Buck

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

A saddle blanket gambler is one who will set up an improptue game anywhere as on a saddle blanket.

That'll work, Del.  He was generally a small stakes gambler.

Four-Eyed Buck, you oughta know by now I'd make up somethin' 'fore I'd run out.

Hows about stripper and fox fire?

[Russ T Chambers]

A saddle blanket gambler is one who will set up an improptue game anywhere as on a saddle blanket.

That'll work, Del.  He was generally a small stakes gambler.

Four-Eyed Buck, you oughta know by now I'd make up somethin' 'fore I'd run out.

Hows about stripper and fox fire?

Just got to my brother's telegraph in Wisconsin.  My horse got a little "sluggish" passin' through Nebrassky. 

More wildlife sorta!

Stripper:   Either a heifer, or a buffalo skinner.

Got one for Del, or anyone else fot that matter: 

Son-of-a-bitch-in-a-sack.

[Delmonico]

Sob in a sack is a boiled or steamed puddin' in a sack.  This is a bead or flour based puddin' not a cornstarch based puddin' like Bill Cosby was always peddlein'.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Sob in a sack is a boiled or steamed puddin' in a sack.  This is a bead or flour based puddin' not a cornstarch based puddin' like Bill Cosby was always peddlein'.

Suet pudding! 

Slim