cowpat
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈkaʊˌpæt/
- UK
:
boñiga
- Anyone else tread in a cowpat?
Examples
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If the lungworm lands in a patch of grass (and not on another cowpat), its odds of being eaten by a cow are much improved.
Academic text (2000) -
In the quiet of an early-morning start in another part of the country, an empty road, hornbills taking off from cowpats they were pecking at as the Foundation station wagon approached, Oupa spoke as if to himself?
Fiction book (1994) -
If you're talking about making gas production from "methanisation" of cowpat, well here in France it's illegal.
Blog text (32) -
Entwhistle just stepped into the 6m-wide cowpat that Thompson left behind.
Blog text (32) -
Cowpats granted the more imaginative children hours of diversion.
Fiction book (1992) -
The main fuel for cooking was dried cowpats, which are fine for stew but won't get a good boil.
Blog text (24) -
Or a rainstorm can splash parts of cowpats or deer droppings onto low-hanging fruit.
Academic text (2002) -
Due to his serial attractions to members of the opposite sex, his exes and their subsidiary kinfolk were as thick on the ground as cowpats at a rodeo and only a little less charming.
Fiction book (2002) -
While walking through the field, I accidentally stepped in a cowpat and had to clean my shoes.
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The children laughed as they jumped over the cowpats scattered across the pasture.
Synonyms
57
2.8
The waste animals produce that is often used to fertilize soil
3
2.6
A solid waste that cows make and people use as fertilizer or fuel
2
8.2
A flat piece of cow poop left in a field
2
1.8
Dung from cows that people put on soil to help plants grow
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8.0
A flat round pile of cow dung that lies on the ground
1
9.6
A flat dried piece of cow dung that people burn as fuel or throw in games
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cowpat comes from the two simple words cow and pat, where pat means a small flat lump, like a 'pat of butter'. So a cowpat is literally a flat lump of cow dung found on the ground, which is why we use the word for that today.