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US
/ˈkaʊ/
]
[ UK /kˈaʊ/ ]
[ UK /kˈaʊ/ ]
NOUN
-
female of domestic cattle:
`moo-cow' is a child's term - mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'
- a large unpleasant woman
VERB
- subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)
How To Use cow In A Sentence
- There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
- I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- Helmeted police fired dozens of rounds of tear gas and kicked and clubbed unarmed protesters — one of whom cowered on the ground, covering his face. Tunisian leader flees amid protests; PM takes over
- Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
- Ralphs et al. suggested no difference in locoweed consumption between native cattle and cattle introduced to locoweed under natural grazing conditions.
- The sow, the mouse and the cow sounded a rousing song.
- When his friends called him a coward his resolve was only hardened. Times, Sunday Times
