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noun kaʊkaʊ 1A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef. Example sentencesExamples - Not only can high temperatures reduce semen quality and libido in bulls, but they can reduce fertility in cows as well.
- Bulls can eat, walk, and run around, bang heads with other bulls, and mount those cows that are in heat.
- How many glasses of milk does a dairy cow produce each day?
- They already have their own cow for milk, and grow their own vegetables.
- This gave farmers an insight into the type of calves to expect from the various bulls on different type cows.
- When rBGH gets injected into dairy cows, milk production increases by as much as 10-15%.
- A full-time dairy and beef farmer, he milks 100 cows with an average yield of 1,650 gallons.
- Birks' brother Walter looked after the dairy cows and the milk.
- Bulls consort with cows and with each other but generally spend much of their time alone.
- Charles milked dairy cows until he was 20 years old and has also been involved in agriculture and farming.
- Learning how to milk cows and shear sheep was crucial.
- As I was a farmer's daughter, Christmas Day began bright and early for me as I got up to help milk our herd of cows.
- This genetically modified hormone was designed to increase milk production in dairy cows.
- He grew up on the couple's farm in Bugthorpe where he loved to help out feeding the animals and milking the cows.
- The milk a dairy cow produces is worth far more on a supermarket shelf than in the stomach of her newborn.
- Their first ranch animal was a milk cow, and when she calved they were on their way to a herd of 120 or so.
- A beef cow needs to produce enough milk to rear her calf well.
- The value of a dairy cow to a farmer is the amount of milk that the cow produces and not its beef value.
- The dairy needs 130,000 cows to provide enough milk every year.
- The change from a dairy/beef cross cow to an all beef cross reduces milk production by up to 1 gallon per day.
- The town bull had a different attitude to that of the cows.
- 1.1 (loosely) a domestic bovine animal, regardless of sex or age.
Example sentencesExamples - Livestock on a typical farm might include draft horses, beef cattle, milk cows, and hogs.
- Sheep, cattle and dairy cows are the main targets but horses, sheep, goats and dogs are also affected.
- The fertilized hay will grow so we can feed our cows and produce milk.
- Conventional farmers feed dairy and beef cows grain and corn and sometimes cow by-products to increase the protein in their diet.
- Cheese can be made out of milk from cows, goats, and sheep.
- It seems so apparent today that beef and dairy cows are the same animal.
- The cows are bred to suit both the dairy and beef enterprise with a mixture of British Friesian and Holstein stock.
- Some farmers are experiencing a dearth of grass and have released the dairy cows and beef cattle onto the silage fields.
- Just as with cows raised for beef, dairy cattle are now usually raised in huge confinement operations.
- A close relative of the domestic cow, Banteng have curvy horns and white ‘stockings’ on their legs.
- In this regard it should be noted that cows slaughtered under the Scheme account for 31% of the total.
- We have succeeded in breeding a very efficient natural milk dairy cow.
- There are approximately 574,000 beef and dairy cows in Manitoba.
- Other studies have not observed a decrease in milk production for beef cows with mastitis.
- The last animal on his farm was a grey cow whose breed had been on the family farm for generations.
- Grandfather had 10 or 15 dairy cows and sold the milk for income.
- Other firms have also tried to use milk from goats and cows to produce drugs but none have proved commercially viable.
- Mongols drink the milk of horses, cows, and sheep, as well as tea and wine.
- Finds of animal bones reveal that the ox and the cow were domesticated as were sheep and goats (kept for meat and wool).
- Another common intolerance is to dairy products, including cow's milk, cheese, yoghurt and cream.
- 1.2 (in farming) a female domestic bovine animal which has borne more than one calf.
Compare with heifer Example sentencesExamples - Suckler cows with calves will also benefit from early turnout provided the fields are sheltered and dry and you take steps to prevent tetany.
- Heifers also meet with good demand and the trade for suckler cows and calves was ‘exceptional’.
- For suckler cows with calves, the biggest risk now is grass tetany.
- 1.3 The female of certain other large animals, for example elephant, rhinoceros, whale, or seal.
Example sentencesExamples - While elephants are indisputably social animals the social lives of males and females - bulls and cows - may be contrasted.
- A handler was killed by an elephant cow which was being used on a film set in Broederstroom on Sunday.
- So far Hornby Castle has six bison cows and one bull - the only ones in the North of England.
- When we pass a rock where a seal cow has just had a pup, we spot them out swimming, the baby piggy-backing on its mother's back.
2informal An unpleasant or disliked woman. what does he see in that cow? Example sentencesExamples - Do you know that stupid cow gave me a 17 out of 20 on my last quiz?
- She's a shameless flirt and might I add, a stupid cow.
- Amazingly the police man backs down, calls her a stupid cow, and walks off.
- I'd give anything to be able to spend a week with my parents again, you don't know how lucky you are you stupid cow.
- You are just another silly cow with an opinion on everything
- 2.1Australian, NZ An unpleasant person or thing.
Example sentencesExamples - In my experience, all women with hyphenated names are cows by default, but Emma-Kate was just terrible.
- The 20 babes being absolute cows to each other is unedifying for all.
- Why one of the silly cows didn't call me on Tuesday to ask where I was is beyond me.
Phrases informal A situation that is unpleasant or very difficult to deal with. he's had a cow of a season Example sentencesExamples - The shooting with the Bren was rotten and on the whole I had a cow of a day as an instructor.
- It did work quite well once it was finally set up, but that it was a cow of a job to get there.
- It's a cow of an idea but it works.
- It was a cow of a time on the Pyrenean roads of the Tour de France.
- One of them has had a cow of a day.
informal Become angry, excited, or agitated. don't have a cow—it's no big deal Example sentencesExamples - People would, well, have a cow, and for good reason.
- Well, mom's having a cow so why don't you do the right thing and go to sleep.
- You better get going or your mom's going to have a cow.
- Aunt Beth is having a cow about the messes I always make.
- I'm afraid Mr. Napper is going to come across some of it and have a cow.
- I'm just relaying the message, don't have a cow.
- Sometimes I wish I could wring that man's neck for the games he plays while I'm on the other side of the world having a cow!
- I'm in there for forty-five minutes and you start to have a cow!
- Her sister did the same thing and you didn't have a cow.
- So, if you're having a cow about the prospect of dating someone you work with - well, you should be.
informal For an indefinitely long time. those two could talk till the cows came home Example sentencesExamples - We may disapprove till the cows come home, it won't alter that fact.
- These players can claim they are Irish till the cows come home but does anyone believe them?
- I can micro-multi-task till the cows come home.
- The debate on whether the death penalty must be abolished or not will go on till the cows come home.
- We could auction these 2200 jobs till the cows come home, but it will be totally futile.
- Why do we build them, maintain them, extend them, lovingly twiddle about with them till the cows come home?
- Play it till the cows come home I say!
- But, if you want to come in and be a good boy and work well, I'll help you till the cows come home.
- And from then on, it's rock n’ roll and dancing till the cows come home.
- Surely she can carry on losing first-round matches till the cows come home.
Origin Old English cū, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koe and German Kuh, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin bos and Greek bous. The female animal is an Old English word. The verb cow, meaning ‘to intimidate’, is a different word, probably from Old Norse kúga ‘to oppress’. See also bull. The expression till the cows come home, ‘for an indefinitely long time’, dates from at least the 16th century. ‘I warrant you lay a bed [in bed] till the cows came home’, wrote Jonathan Swift in 1738.
Rhymes allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao verb kaʊkaʊ [with object]Cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation. the intellectuals had been cowed into silence Example sentencesExamples - This is an awfully funny story if you are not cowed by the scholarly references.
- But for once not all the Libs were cowed: some, at least, of the backbench are still openly restless.
- Subdued and cowed by the warlords, the public has little motivation to mobilize against the militias.
- He is not cowed by suggestions that it would be a failure to end his first season without a trophy.
- Politicians are too cowed by the media even to introduce the bill.
- The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
- And anybody who sort of thinks that this is sending a message of seeking to cow anyone is really misreading it.
- Would we do it if we were not cowed by the threat of a US backlash?
- Economic troubles have fortunately not cowed artists or dealers in Japan.
- I call them ‘logic monsters’ they use ‘logic’ to bully and cow people into doing what they want.
- Some owners refused to be cowed by the intimidation of the clergy.
- Just like real politics, the game cowed me into staying on message, and staying boring.
- Opposition in Europe and elsewhere to the war was counteracted by a massive propaganda campaign to cow people into silence.
- Another alternative is to be cowed into silence by social intimidation.
- But we have reached a frightening turning point if artists are cowed into silence by violence and threats.
- Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.
- So why have religious people been cowed into throwing their opinions overboard so easily?
- Already, she was learning a little, because she was cowed before him.
- This severe treatment, which Alexander had his Greek allies confirm, cowed potential opponents such as Athens.
- Don't cow me down if you don't agree, just state your point and we will agree to disagree.
Synonyms intimidate, daunt, browbeat, bully, badger, dragoon, bludgeon, tyrannize, overawe, awe, dismay, dishearten, unnerve, subdue, scare, terrorize, frighten, petrify informal psych out, bulldoze, railroad
Origin Late 16th century: probably from Old Norse kúga 'oppress'. nounkoukaʊ 1A fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef. Example sentencesExamples - Birks' brother Walter looked after the dairy cows and the milk.
- The milk a dairy cow produces is worth far more on a supermarket shelf than in the stomach of her newborn.
- A beef cow needs to produce enough milk to rear her calf well.
- Charles milked dairy cows until he was 20 years old and has also been involved in agriculture and farming.
- The value of a dairy cow to a farmer is the amount of milk that the cow produces and not its beef value.
- Learning how to milk cows and shear sheep was crucial.
- Bulls consort with cows and with each other but generally spend much of their time alone.
- As I was a farmer's daughter, Christmas Day began bright and early for me as I got up to help milk our herd of cows.
- When rBGH gets injected into dairy cows, milk production increases by as much as 10-15%.
- Not only can high temperatures reduce semen quality and libido in bulls, but they can reduce fertility in cows as well.
- Bulls can eat, walk, and run around, bang heads with other bulls, and mount those cows that are in heat.
- How many glasses of milk does a dairy cow produce each day?
- He grew up on the couple's farm in Bugthorpe where he loved to help out feeding the animals and milking the cows.
- The town bull had a different attitude to that of the cows.
- This genetically modified hormone was designed to increase milk production in dairy cows.
- The dairy needs 130,000 cows to provide enough milk every year.
- Their first ranch animal was a milk cow, and when she calved they were on their way to a herd of 120 or so.
- The change from a dairy/beef cross cow to an all beef cross reduces milk production by up to 1 gallon per day.
- A full-time dairy and beef farmer, he milks 100 cows with an average yield of 1,650 gallons.
- This gave farmers an insight into the type of calves to expect from the various bulls on different type cows.
- They already have their own cow for milk, and grow their own vegetables.
- 1.1 (loosely) a domestic bovine animal, regardless of sex or age.
Example sentencesExamples - There are approximately 574,000 beef and dairy cows in Manitoba.
- Finds of animal bones reveal that the ox and the cow were domesticated as were sheep and goats (kept for meat and wool).
- Another common intolerance is to dairy products, including cow's milk, cheese, yoghurt and cream.
- It seems so apparent today that beef and dairy cows are the same animal.
- The fertilized hay will grow so we can feed our cows and produce milk.
- Some farmers are experiencing a dearth of grass and have released the dairy cows and beef cattle onto the silage fields.
- Grandfather had 10 or 15 dairy cows and sold the milk for income.
- Other studies have not observed a decrease in milk production for beef cows with mastitis.
- Just as with cows raised for beef, dairy cattle are now usually raised in huge confinement operations.
- In this regard it should be noted that cows slaughtered under the Scheme account for 31% of the total.
- Sheep, cattle and dairy cows are the main targets but horses, sheep, goats and dogs are also affected.
- Mongols drink the milk of horses, cows, and sheep, as well as tea and wine.
- The cows are bred to suit both the dairy and beef enterprise with a mixture of British Friesian and Holstein stock.
- Conventional farmers feed dairy and beef cows grain and corn and sometimes cow by-products to increase the protein in their diet.
- Other firms have also tried to use milk from goats and cows to produce drugs but none have proved commercially viable.
- The last animal on his farm was a grey cow whose breed had been on the family farm for generations.
- Cheese can be made out of milk from cows, goats, and sheep.
- Livestock on a typical farm might include draft horses, beef cattle, milk cows, and hogs.
- We have succeeded in breeding a very efficient natural milk dairy cow.
- A close relative of the domestic cow, Banteng have curvy horns and white ‘stockings’ on their legs.
- 1.2 (in farming) a female domestic bovine animal which has borne more than one calf.
Compare with heifer Example sentencesExamples - Suckler cows with calves will also benefit from early turnout provided the fields are sheltered and dry and you take steps to prevent tetany.
- For suckler cows with calves, the biggest risk now is grass tetany.
- Heifers also meet with good demand and the trade for suckler cows and calves was ‘exceptional’.
- 1.3 The female of certain other large animals, for example elephant, rhinoceros, whale, or seal.
Example sentencesExamples - So far Hornby Castle has six bison cows and one bull - the only ones in the North of England.
- A handler was killed by an elephant cow which was being used on a film set in Broederstroom on Sunday.
- When we pass a rock where a seal cow has just had a pup, we spot them out swimming, the baby piggy-backing on its mother's back.
- While elephants are indisputably social animals the social lives of males and females - bulls and cows - may be contrasted.
2informal An unpleasant or disliked woman. what does he see in that cow? Example sentencesExamples - Do you know that stupid cow gave me a 17 out of 20 on my last quiz?
- Amazingly the police man backs down, calls her a stupid cow, and walks off.
- I'd give anything to be able to spend a week with my parents again, you don't know how lucky you are you stupid cow.
- She's a shameless flirt and might I add, a stupid cow.
- You are just another silly cow with an opinion on everything
- 2.1Australian, NZ An unpleasant person or thing.
Example sentencesExamples - Why one of the silly cows didn't call me on Tuesday to ask where I was is beyond me.
- The 20 babes being absolute cows to each other is unedifying for all.
- In my experience, all women with hyphenated names are cows by default, but Emma-Kate was just terrible.
Phrases informal Become angry, excited, or agitated. don't have a cow—it's no big deal Example sentencesExamples - People would, well, have a cow, and for good reason.
- I'm in there for forty-five minutes and you start to have a cow!
- Her sister did the same thing and you didn't have a cow.
- Aunt Beth is having a cow about the messes I always make.
- So, if you're having a cow about the prospect of dating someone you work with - well, you should be.
- You better get going or your mom's going to have a cow.
- I'm just relaying the message, don't have a cow.
- I'm afraid Mr. Napper is going to come across some of it and have a cow.
- Sometimes I wish I could wring that man's neck for the games he plays while I'm on the other side of the world having a cow!
- Well, mom's having a cow so why don't you do the right thing and go to sleep.
informal For an indefinitely long time. those two could talk till the cows came home Example sentencesExamples - The debate on whether the death penalty must be abolished or not will go on till the cows come home.
- Surely she can carry on losing first-round matches till the cows come home.
- Play it till the cows come home I say!
- We could auction these 2200 jobs till the cows come home, but it will be totally futile.
- Why do we build them, maintain them, extend them, lovingly twiddle about with them till the cows come home?
- And from then on, it's rock n’ roll and dancing till the cows come home.
- I can micro-multi-task till the cows come home.
- We may disapprove till the cows come home, it won't alter that fact.
- These players can claim they are Irish till the cows come home but does anyone believe them?
- But, if you want to come in and be a good boy and work well, I'll help you till the cows come home.
Origin Old English cū, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koe and German Kuh, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin bos and Greek bous. verbkaʊkou [with object]usually be cowedCause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation. the intellectuals had been cowed into silence Example sentencesExamples - Don't cow me down if you don't agree, just state your point and we will agree to disagree.
- Subdued and cowed by the warlords, the public has little motivation to mobilize against the militias.
- This severe treatment, which Alexander had his Greek allies confirm, cowed potential opponents such as Athens.
- Another alternative is to be cowed into silence by social intimidation.
- Economic troubles have fortunately not cowed artists or dealers in Japan.
- But we have reached a frightening turning point if artists are cowed into silence by violence and threats.
- Politicians are too cowed by the media even to introduce the bill.
- This is an awfully funny story if you are not cowed by the scholarly references.
- Garang had a broad impassive face; he cultivated a ponderous dignity that often cowed his opponents.
- Just like real politics, the game cowed me into staying on message, and staying boring.
- The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
- I call them ‘logic monsters’ they use ‘logic’ to bully and cow people into doing what they want.
- Some owners refused to be cowed by the intimidation of the clergy.
- Opposition in Europe and elsewhere to the war was counteracted by a massive propaganda campaign to cow people into silence.
- Would we do it if we were not cowed by the threat of a US backlash?
- So why have religious people been cowed into throwing their opinions overboard so easily?
- But for once not all the Libs were cowed: some, at least, of the backbench are still openly restless.
- And anybody who sort of thinks that this is sending a message of seeking to cow anyone is really misreading it.
- Already, she was learning a little, because she was cowed before him.
- He is not cowed by suggestions that it would be a failure to end his first season without a trophy.
Synonyms intimidate, daunt, browbeat, bully, badger, dragoon, bludgeon, tyrannize, overawe, awe, dismay, dishearten, unnerve, subdue, scare, terrorize, frighten, petrify
Origin Late 16th century: probably from Old Norse kúga ‘oppress’. |