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cowy, a.|ˈkaʊɪ| Also cowey. [f. cow n.1 + -y1.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a cow; bovine. Also fig.
1893Field 11 Mar. 363/3 We have tasted several samples of this Australian butter... The same ‘cowey’ flavour was discoverable. 1903Graphic 3 Oct. 443 The occasional whiff from a cowy place. 1924Blackw. Mag. Apr. 458/2 The cowy-smelling Himalayan road. 1925D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 164 Possibly she is lying peacefully in cowy inertia, like a black Hindu statue. 1935Amer. Speech X. 270/1 (Lang. Livestock Mart) Cowy, like a cow; showing signs of maturity or age; ‘matronliness’. 1938Hemingway 5th Column (1939) 113 Eland... They're the big cowy things that jump like hares. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 472 Freshly drawn milk from a healthy udder has a characteristic flavour, best described as ‘cowy’. |