cowchild

English

Etymology

From cow +‎ child, after cowboy and cowgirl.

Noun

cowchild (plural cowchildren)

1. A child who is a cowboy or cowgirl.

   Synonym: cowkid (informal)

   • 1980 October 7, Donna Kay Williams, “Urban cowpokes”, in The Boston Phoenix, page 30:

     And for the urban cowchild, Walker’s has infant boots, starting at $12.95.

   • 1996 spring, Florida Heritage, volume 4, number 2, page 4:

     The early morning fog lifted and one thousand head of cracker cattle herded by Florida cowhunters thundered across Highway 192 into Kissimmee’s Silver Spurs Arena, followed by hundreds of cowboys, cowgirls and cowchildren on horseback, buggies, covered wagons and conveyances of every description.

   • 2000, Norval White, Elliot Willensky, AIA Guide to New York City, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 370:

     A modern horse fair for West Side cowchildren is the feature of this play area, subsidized by the J. M. Kaplan Fund to enliven otherwise pedestrian public housing.