cove
noun /kəʊv/
/kəʊv/
- a small bay (= an area of sea that is partly surrounded by land)
enlarge image- a secluded cove
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) a man
Word Originsense 1 Old English cofa ‘chamber, cave’, of Germanic origin; related to German Koben ‘pigsty, pen’. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps from Romany kova ‘thing or person’.