![]() Click the answer to find similar crossword clues. Enter the length or pattern for better results. The Crossword Solver finds answers to classic crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles. Skedaddle run off or run away Ex: The cats skedaddle when you go near them. I’m going to the hoedown tonight.Ī: By hook or crook I think I’ll join ya! I’m tired of being around all those dudes at the saloon.ī: Well, we better head ’em up and move ’em out and get back to town. The Crossword Solver found 44 answers to 'skedaddle', 10 letters crossword clue. Sit-a-spell visit briefly Ex: Aunt Margie wanted us in come in a sit a spell. Now, here is a brief conversation between two cowboys that uses some of this vocabulary from above to help you put these phrases in context.Ī: Are you going down to wet your whistle at the saloon tonight?ī: Not me, that saloon over yonder is full of namby-pamby city slickers. Yokel = a person from the country (not the city) The jig is up = the game is over the truth has been exposed Wet your whistle = have a drink (usually alcohol) A kid who breaks a window with her baseball might decide to skedaddle before her neighbor comes home from work. ![]() (Let’s move these cattle.)Ī dude = a person who tries to dress like and talk like a cowboy, but really is a city person /skddl/ Other forms: skedaddled skedaddling skedaddles When you skedaddle, you leave very suddenly. ![]() Giddy up = let’s go (often said while riding to a horse) So saddle up partner, because here we go! Today I thought I’d teach you some common cowboy phrases and sayings so that you can understand cowboy-speak next time you hear it. Slang is endlessly fun, isnt it It transforms language rapidly, and sometimes. I’m sure you have seen and maybe heard cowboys in American films and on TV, but did you know that American cowboys have their own dialect or way of speaking? Well, they do. This country offers everything from the scenery that truly moves you to a culture that immediately has you under its spell. The British slang word namase, which meant to skedaddle around 1855. ![]()
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