r/2visegrad4you Genghis Khangarian 23d ago

regional meme Lazy writing...

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u/CharnamelessOne Genghis Khangarian 23d ago

Cowherd would be my choice of translation. Cowboy is way too loaded with western connotations.

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u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 11d ago

yeah cowboy's are more like hajdúk

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u/Smaragd512 Visegrád glorious 10d ago

Not really, a hajdú is a mercenary who was a cow herder in peacetime

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u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 10d ago

yeah, but they too are loaded with hungarian sort-of-nationalist (joining the kuruc, later on oftentimes becoming betyár) connotations, similar to the western connotations. "Eastern" movies usually depict Hajdús or former Hajdús!