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cow-tastrophe

cow-tastrophe is the alternative form of cowtastrophe.

Meaning of cowtastrophe

Noun

cowtastrophe (plural cowtastrophes)

  1. (humorous, informal) A catastrophe involving cattle.
    • As the reclining cow commonly rises first behind [...] with so close a shave upon a cow-tastrophe, I should not stand upon ceremony in the dark.1859, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Convalescent, page 24

Forms of cow-tastrophe

pluralcow-tastrophes

Questions about cow-tastrophe

What is cow-tastrophe the alternative form of?
Cow-tastrophe is the alternative form of cowtastrophe.

Words near cow-tastrophe in the dictionary

  1. cow-pilots
  2. cow-piss drinker
  3. cow-piss drinkers
  4. cow-puncher
  5. cow-punchers
  6. cow-tastrophe
  7. cow-tastrophes
  8. cow-tree
  9. cow-trees
  10. cow-wheat
  11. cow-wheats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cow-tastrophe (page history and authors); cowtastrophe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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