| 释义 |
cow-heart
A pseudo-etymological alteration of coward: cf. next.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 473 Your skirmishing parties, call them cohorts or cow-hearts, shall never drive my statarianly disciplined battalion from its ground. 1863W. Barnes Dorset Dial. (Philol. Soc.), Cowheart, a coward. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Cow-heart, coward. |