cayuse

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Be like a cayuse, my son, and adapt yourself to carcumstances Very good advice," said the professor approvingly, as the desert philosopher concluded As Pete had conjectured, the ponies were far from being as tuckered out as they appeared, despite their sunken flanks and distended nostrils.

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  1. noun Pacific Northwest A horse, especially an Indian pony.
  2. Regional Note
    The noun cayuse comes from the name of the Cayuse people in the Pacific Northwest. Cayuse is used chiefly in the territory of the word's origin—the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho—although its use has also spread into other Western states. A verb meaning "to buck,” derived from the noun, is cited by Ramon F. Adams in Old-Time Cowhand (1961): "What cowboys in other sections called buckin', the Texan called pitchin', and a term used in South Texas, though seldom heard in other sections, was cayusein'.”

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  • By the sound of its feet we c'd tell it was no or'nary prairie cayuse, an' soon, sure enough, Broken Feather came inter view, with the goods in a gunny sack slung over his shoulder. —  Kiddie the Scout
  • His cayuse, the fleetest Buffalo horse of all the Blood tribe, galloped with the full fear in his heart of the danger that was behind. —  The Outcasts
  • Be like a cayuse, my son, and adapt yourself to carcumstances Very good advice," said the professor approvingly, as the desert philosopher concluded As Pete had conjectured, the ponies were far from being as tuckered out as they appeared, despite their sunken flanks and distended nostrils. —  The Border Boys Across the Frontier
  • "Giv' you boys a cayuse, an' you'll ride him to death. —  The Border Boys Across the Frontier
  • She could not see him, but she could hear him as he moved about; and presently he spoke shortly to her from a point close by Here's a cayuse--saddled an' bridled. —  The Trail Horde
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  1. Short for cayuse pony, from Cayuse.

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  1. American Indian name.
 

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