cow
- noun
- /kaʊ/
- Slur
- She's being a proper cow right now.
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- I thought you miserable cow, my wife's just died in you.
- Nathan said that Trisha's a cow next story.
Examples
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Betty was homely as a mud fence, stupid as a cow, and bigger than most of us guys.
Fiction book (1991) -
Bramson approached me, saying, "Holy cow, you may as well get ready to spend the whole morning here."
Academic text (1992) -
Who would want to be married to a fat cow like you when he could marry a body like this?
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My mom's having a cow about the bathroom.
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I can't believe she called me a cow just because I disagreed with her.
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Whenever someone mentions her name, people say she's such a cow for how she treats others.
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During the meeting, she acted like a real cow, making it difficult for anyone to share their ideas.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A deadly disease of cows that damages the brain and can make people sick if they eat the meat
- Offensive
A college that teaches farming and is often called low quality as an insult
- Jargon
A very simple model that ignores real details to explain something, often as a joke
- UK
A tall plant with clusters of small white flowers that grows wild by roads and fields
- US
A tall wild plant with thick stems and white or purple flower groups that can irritate your skin
- US
A medium to large tree that grows in eastern United States with strong wood for baskets and chair seats
- UK
A small European annual plant with pale pink flowers that often grows as a weed in grain fields
- US
A water plant with broad floating leaves and round yellow flowers that grows in quiet ponds
- Specialized
A fern with long flat pale green leaves that grows on trees or on the ground in warm places
How Offensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cow used as an insult comes from comparing a person to the animal — a rude way to call someone 'unpleasant' or large — and a helpful way to remember it is to think of the rude comparison, which is why the word is offensive.