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单词 kill-cow
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kill-cown.adj.

Brit. /ˈkɪlkaʊ/, U.S. /ˈkɪlˌkaʊ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s kilcow(e.
Etymology: < kill v. + cow n.1
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A. n.
1. A swashbuckler, bully, braggadocio; a terrible or great person; a man of importance.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A3v What neede all this stir? this banding of kilcowes to fight with a shadow?
1639 Earl of Strafford Let. 26 Mar. (1739) II. 307 A Captain he is, but no such great Kill-Cow as they would have him.
1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 127 One Hamon (a notable kill-cow and noted dueller).
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 91 Well known to be one of the greatest kill-cows at drinking in the nation.
1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 22 ‘He's no great killcow,’ i.e., he doesn't amount to much (of a person who thinks himself somebody).
2. dialect. A serious affair; a matter involving great trouble or loss. (Usually in negative phr.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence
plightc1300
woea1325
fanda1400
afflictionc1429
assayc1430
brier?1504
trouble?1521
distress1549
smarts1552
say?1572
infliction1590
disaccommodation1645
trial1754
ordeal1807
time1809
kill-cow1825
Via Crucis1844
Via Dolorosa1844
racket1877
pisser1957
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Ye needna mind, I'm sure it's nae sic great kill-cow.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Twadn no such kill-cow job arter all.
3. A nickname for a butcher. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher
fleshmongerc1000
butchera1325
flesh-hewer1335
flesher1369
macegreffa1450
butcher man1481
kill-crow1593
pennyman1610
bovicide1678
pork butcher1763
carcass-butcher1773
butcheress1802
ox-feller1856
butchy1867
legger1876
charcutier1894
eviscerator1961
kill-cow-
.. Old Ballad I would not be a butcher..For..He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named.
4. A kind of spike-rush: see quot. 1898.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1898 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. III. Index 571/4 Kill-cow.
B. adj.
Bragging, bullying; terrifying. kill-cow fray, something made up to terrify.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)
buga1425
buggart1440
gay horse1483
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
bog1527
terriculament1548
bugbear1552
bull-bear1561
hag1563
boggard1574
scare-bug1583
bull-beggar1584
kill-cow fray1589
poker1598
bug-boy1601
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
mock-beggar1611
mormolukee1624
Tom Poker1673
raw-head1678
hobgoblin1709
bugaboo1733
Tom Po1744
spectre1774
bogy-man1862
bogy1865
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** The ingrafted ouerflow of some kilcow conceipt.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D2 In this vayne of kilcowe vanitie.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage I. ii. xii. 145 Like Semiramis Elephants which were but stuffed oxe-hides, kill-cow-frayes.
1633 J. Shirley Young Admirall iv. iii You are afraid Of him, belike: 'tis such a kill-cow gentleman!

Derivatives

ˈkillcow v. Obsolete (transitive) to terrify with threatening looks; to cow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)] > terrify with threatening looks
killcow1593
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 142 A new Art to kill-cow men with peremptorie termes, and bugges-wordes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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