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† cow-ˈhuby Sc. Obs.
[Derivation of second element uncertain; it is not known as an independent word.]
App. = ‘calf’, used in endearment or ridicule. (The meaning cow-herd suggested by Jamieson does not appear in the quots.)
1500–20Dunbar ‘In secreit place’ 58 Quod scho, ‘Gramercye ! my sweit cowhubye’. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 86 Knychtis ar kouhubis, and commonis plukyt crawis. 1558Bp. Dury in Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 262 Fra France we thought to have gottin a Rooby [Monsieur de Ruby]; And yit is he nothing but a cowhuby. a1605Montgomerie Flyting 617 An clauering cohoobie that crackes of the pharie. |