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• #123

United States of America [US]

The dialect of the Texas region

Word: maverick

Translation:

longer

Meaning:

a loner an independent cuss wild. First used to describe cattle owned by Sam Maverick of Galveston Island. His cattle were wild-like and he d swim them across West Bay and join up with the herd going north. When cattle broke the herd the wranglers sa

back to Texas

Other Words from Texas

• all choked up

• eat up

• maverick

• yankee/damnyankee

• blinky

• norther

• conniptions

• walkin in tall cotton

• all swole up

• nu-uh

• tump

• galoot

• place

• fess up

• truck

• ole cuss

• crusty

• ball

• sweet milk

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