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City Slickers Vocab
George Mason Univeristy, ELI AOCS
Question | Answer |
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adultery | sex between a married person and someone other than his/her lawful spouse |
amble | to walk slowly or leisurely |
budge | to move slightly |
castrate | to remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate |
cattle | cows raised for the purpose of being eaten |
herd | a group of grass eating animals, such as cows or sheep |
city slicker | slang term for a person from an urban area |
corral | an enclosed (fenced) area on a ranch used to hold animals |
get it | to understand; to learn |
glass is half empty | pessimistic |
goofball | a foolish, immature person |
grotesque | bizarre, inappropriate, excessive |
hick | slang term for a person from the country |
kid around | to joke with |
leathery | to have an appearance like leather |
lump | an irregularly shaped mass or piece; in medicine, a tumor that may or may not be cancerous |
make an issue | to create a problem out of something that is not a problem |
make it | to achieve or attain |
mortality | the quality or condition of being mortal (subject to death) |
mosey | to move in a leisurely, relaxed way; often used to describe the way a cowboy walks |
ranch | an extensive farm, especially in the western United States, on which cattle, sheep, or horses are raised |
sashay | to walk in a showy manner; often associated with the stereotyped “showy” walk of some gay men |
harass | to irritate or bother constantly; to wear out, exhaust. |
tacky | lacking good taste, style |
catch | to discover dishonest behavior |