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cow
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kou, IPA(key): /ka?/
- \? ka?\
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English cou, cu, from Old English c? (“cow”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?, from Proto-Germanic *k?z (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws (“cow”).
Cognate with Sanskrit ?? (go), Ancient Greek ???? (boûs), Persian ???? (g?v)), Latvian govs (“cow”), Proto-Slavic *gov?do (Serbo-Croatian govedo, Russian ???????? (govjadina) ("beef")), Scots coo (“cow”), North Frisian ko, kø (“cow”), West Frisian ko (“cow”), Dutch koe (“cow”), Low German Koh, Koo, Kau (“cow”), German Kuh (“cow”), Swedish ko (“cow”), Norwegian ku (“cow”), Icelandic kýr (“cow”), Latin b?s (“ox, bull, cow”), Armenian ??? (kov, “cow”).
The plural kine is from Middle English kyne, kyn, kuin, kiin, kien (“cows”), either a double plural of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to modern kye +? -en, or inherited from Old English c?na (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of c? (“cow”).
Noun
cow (plural cows or cattle or kine) (see usage notes)
- (properly) An adult female of the species Bos taurus, especially one that has calved.
- (formerly inexact but now common) Any member of the species Bos taurus regardless of sex or age, including bulls and calves.
- (uncommon) Beef: the meat of cattle as food.
- (uncommon) Any bovines or bovids generally, including yaks, buffalo, etc.
- (biology) A female member of other large species of mammal, including the bovines, moose, whales, seals, hippos, rhinos, manatees, and elephants.
- (derogatory, Britain, Australia, informal) A woman considered unpleasant in some way, particularly one considered nasty, stupid, fat, lazy, or difficult.
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXII, [1]
- […] the worst insult to a woman, either in London or Paris, is "cow"; a name which might even be a compliment, for cows are among the most likeable of animals.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:
- Greville Preston: You've been set up, you silly cow. Now, don't let me hear any more about this unless you have absolute stand-up-in-court proof it's kosher...
Mattie Storin: Pig.
- Greville Preston: You've been set up, you silly cow. Now, don't let me hear any more about this unless you have absolute stand-up-in-court proof it's kosher...
- 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXII, [1]
- (mining) A chock: a wedge or brake used to stop a machine or car.
Usage notes
The plural cows is the normal plural for multiple individuals, while cattle is used in a more collective sense. The umlaut plurals kee, kie, kine, ky and kye are archaic or dialectal, and are not in common use.
Synonyms
- (derogatory: despicable woman): bitch
- (female animal):
- (female dolphin): dolphinet (archaic)
- (informal: anything annoyingly difficult): bastard, bitch, bugger (UK)
Antonyms
- (female domesticated ox or other bovine): bull (male, uncastrated), ox or steer (male, castrated), heifer (female, immature)
Hyponyms
- (young or little): cowlet, cowling
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: kaw
- Tok Pisin: kau
- ? Abenaki: kaoz (from cows)
- ? Maori: kau
Translations
See cow/translations § Noun.
See also
- List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Probably from Old Norse kúga (“to oppress”) (whence also Norwegian and Danish kue, Swedish kuva); compare Icelandic kúfa (“to set on top”) and Faroese kúga (“to oppress”).
Verb
cow (third-person singular simple present cows, present participle cowing, simple past and past participle cowed)
- (transitive, chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of.
- To vanquish a people already cowed.
Derived terms
- cowed
- cowedly
- cowedness
- uncowed
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
cow (plural cows)
- (Britain, dialect) A chimney cowl.
Anagrams
- CWO, WOC
Huave
Noun
cow
- metate (grinding stone)
Derived terms
References
- Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 88, 252
Middle English
Noun
cow
- Alternative form of cou
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bulldoze
English
Etymology
From earlier bulldose (noun, literally “bull-dose, a dose fit for a bull”), equivalent to bull +? dose.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?ldo?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?ld??z/
- Hyphenation: bull?doze
Verb
bulldoze (third-person singular simple present bulldozes, present participle bulldozing, simple past and past participle bulldozed)
- To destroy with a bulldozer.
- He's certainly very chirpy for a man whose house has just been bulldozed down.
- (Britain) To push someone over by heading straight over them. Often used in conjunction with "over".
- He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.
- (Britain) To push through forcefully.
- For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform. In the 11th minute Theo Walcott drilled in a corner, and Olivier Giroud bulldozed through unopposed to thump the ball goalwards.
- To push into a heap, as a bulldozer does.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 469]:
- There stood a low yellow compact machine which apparently did the digging and bull-dozed back the earth.
- Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 469]:
- (Britain) To shoot down an idea immediately and forcefully.
- That was a good suggestion, but you just bulldozed it.
- (US, slang, dated) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
Translations
References
Kelly, John. "What in the Word?! The racist roots of 'bulldozer'". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
Further reading
- bulldoze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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