cow

  • 21cow — I. /kaʊ / (say kow) noun (plural cows or, Archaic, kine) 1. a. a large bovine, Bos taurus, the domestic cow, owing ancestry to both the European aurochs, B. primigenius, and the Asian zebu, B. indicus, domesticated since prehistoric times and… …

  • 22cow — I UK [kaʊ] / US noun [countable] Word forms cow : singular cow plural cows ** 1) an animal kept by farmers for its milk or meat. A male cow is called a bull, a female is a cow, and a young cow is a calf. Their meat is called beef. The sound a cow …

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  • 23cow — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ beef ▪ dairy, milch (BrE, often figurative), milk (esp. AmE) ▪ The region is treated as a milch cow by central government. ▪ sac …

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  • 24cow — cow1 [ kau ] noun count ** 1. ) an animal kept by farmers for its milk or meat. A male cow is called a bull, a female is a cow, and a young cow is a calf. Their meat is called beef. The sound a cow makes is written as moo. a ) the female of some… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 25cow — {{11}}cow (n.) O.E. cu cow, from P.Gmc. *kwon (Cf. O.Fris. ku, M.Du. coe, Du. koe, O.H.G. kuo, Ger. Kuh, O.N. kyr, Dan., Swed. ko), earlier *kwom, from PIE *gwous (Cf. Skt. gaus, Gk. bo …

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  • 26cow — cow1 S2 [kau] n [: Old English; Origin: cu] 1.) a large female animal that is kept on farms and used to produce milk or meat →↑bull 2.) a male or female animal of this type →↑bull ▪ a herd of cows 3.) the female of some large anima …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 27cow — see why buy a cow when milk is so cheap? a bellowing cow soon forgets her calf better a good cow than a cow of a good kind it is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail three things are not to be trusted: a cow’s horn, a dog’s tooth, and a… …

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  • 28cow — cow1 cowlike, adj. /kow/, n., pl. cows, (Archaic) kine. 1. the mature female of a bovine animal, esp. of the genus Bos. 2. the female of various other large animals, as the elephant or whale. 3. Informal. a domestic bovine of either sex and any… …

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  • 29cow — Synonyms and related words: Brahman, Indian buffalo, Partlet, abash, appall, aurochs, beat down, beef, beef cattle, beeves, biddy, bison, bitch, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, break, brood mare, browbeat, buffalo …

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  • 30cow — I Australian Slang 1. bad tempered woman; 2. term of abuse: You miserable cow ; 3. a cow of a (something or someone) difficult, unpleasant, disagreeable (thing or person): That s a cow of a thing to say II Scottish Vernacular Dictionary The worst …

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