Glossary: Cowboy and Shakespeare
Cowboy
Arbuckles: Coffee, named for a popular brand.
Chickabiddies: Children.
Cut dirt: Hurry.
Gospel mill: Church.
Rejects the mitten: Rejects a romantic advance.
Save their bacon: Save oneself from injury.
Scuds/dimes/rocks: Money.
Signalized: Contact with technology.
Squally: Windy, gusty.
Up-to-trap: Knowing, shrewd.
Get a wiggle on: Hurry.
Wipe yer chin: Be quiet.
Some Coyboyisms to exclaim:
Higgledy-Piggledy (In confusion.)
Yippie-ki-yay! (Expression of joy.)
I dad! (Surprise or wonder.)
Dad-blame it! (God dammit.)
Burrow Milk! (Nonsense.)
Bully! (Positive.)
Cowboys often competed in cursing contests around campfires but their curses were more outrageous and funny than they were dirty.
My dead Sister’s doll!
Well I’ll be a big fat donkey!
Etc….
Chickabiddies: Children.
Cut dirt: Hurry.
Gospel mill: Church.
Rejects the mitten: Rejects a romantic advance.
Save their bacon: Save oneself from injury.
Scuds/dimes/rocks: Money.
Signalized: Contact with technology.
Squally: Windy, gusty.
Up-to-trap: Knowing, shrewd.
Get a wiggle on: Hurry.
Wipe yer chin: Be quiet.
Some Coyboyisms to exclaim:
Higgledy-Piggledy (In confusion.)
Yippie-ki-yay! (Expression of joy.)
I dad! (Surprise or wonder.)
Dad-blame it! (God dammit.)
Burrow Milk! (Nonsense.)
Bully! (Positive.)
Cowboys often competed in cursing contests around campfires but their curses were more outrageous and funny than they were dirty.
My dead Sister’s doll!
Well I’ll be a big fat donkey!
Etc….
Shakespeare's words
Cozenage: To cheat or trick; flattery.
Crupper: A piece of tack used to keep a saddle on a horse.
Dowsabel: An obsolete word for sweetheart.
Ducats: A Venetian duct (what we assume Shakespeare is talking about) is worth about $4.50 today.
Earthy-gross conciet: Hidden meaning of Antipholus’s words.
Flout: Openly disregard.
Lapland sorcerers
Loureth: Third person singular version of scowl.
Marks- One mark is the equivalent of roughly $146 today.
Mire: Cover in mud.
Pentecost: Commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai.
Rush: A thing of no value.
Wend: Go in a specified direction.
Places Mentioned
Centaur: Where Antipholus of Syracuse is staying with his Dromio.
Phoenix: The name of Antipholus of Ephesus’s home, a saloon in our version.
Tiger: When Antipholus of Ephesus can’t get into his house, Balthazar suggests they get dinner here.
Porpentine: Where Antipholus of Ephesus’s courtesan lives. This is where they actually get dinner after the Tiger is suggested.
Crupper: A piece of tack used to keep a saddle on a horse.
Dowsabel: An obsolete word for sweetheart.
Ducats: A Venetian duct (what we assume Shakespeare is talking about) is worth about $4.50 today.
Earthy-gross conciet: Hidden meaning of Antipholus’s words.
Flout: Openly disregard.
Lapland sorcerers
Loureth: Third person singular version of scowl.
Marks- One mark is the equivalent of roughly $146 today.
Mire: Cover in mud.
Pentecost: Commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai.
Rush: A thing of no value.
Wend: Go in a specified direction.
Places Mentioned
Centaur: Where Antipholus of Syracuse is staying with his Dromio.
Phoenix: The name of Antipholus of Ephesus’s home, a saloon in our version.
Tiger: When Antipholus of Ephesus can’t get into his house, Balthazar suggests they get dinner here.
Porpentine: Where Antipholus of Ephesus’s courtesan lives. This is where they actually get dinner after the Tiger is suggested.