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ˈcow-turd Now vulgar or dial.
1. A clot of cow-dung (e.g. in a pasture).
c1485Digby Myst. ii. 101 Butt in a cow tord dyd ye slyde. 1547Boorde Brev. Health cxciv. 68 Use local playsters, and among al other thynges a hote cowe toorde is nat the worste. 1585Lloyd Treas. Health N j, Take a drye coutord. 1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 172. 1918 W. Raleigh Let. 18 Nov. (1926) II. 498, I want it to reach Germany... For self-respect and sense of honour the whole nation is one large cow-turd.
transf.1637Bastwick Litany ii. 21 The Prelates..put vp their fingers to their Foure-Square Cowturds, and giue him a nod with the head.
2. Comb. cow-turd-bob, the larva of a beetle found in cow-dung, used by anglers as a bait; so cow-turd-fly.
1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. iv. §10 (1689) 39. 1684 R. H. Sch. Recreat. 162 Flies proper for every Month..For May..the Peacock-fly, the Cow-lady, the Cow-turd fly. 1798Sporting Mag. XI. 246 Cow-turd bob, or Clap-bait, found under a cow-turd. |