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cow juice

cow juice noun: cow’s milk.

Noun

cow juice (usually uncountable, plural cow juices)

  1. (humorous, idiomatic, informal, usually) Cow’s milk.
    • Cow Juice. Milk.[1796, [Francis Grose], “Cow Juice”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 3rd edition, London: […] [Samuel] Hooper and [Henry] Wigstead, […], →OCLC, signature [H3], recto
    • She called, “Alice Jean, a cow juice,” and laughed, exposing gold fillings. “We seen it ordered that way in a picture show,” she said. Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.1966, Joan Williams, Old Powder Man, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 280
  2. (informal, rare, usually) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cow, juice; liquids from beef.
    • Lurvy doesn’t care what she heard, doesn’t care about expanding feed-bed carriers, automatic empty early-warning fertilizer attachment trays, steaks warm in cow juices.1999, Hal Niedzviecki, “[The Pig Farm] Problems At Work”, in Lurvy: A Farmer’s Almanac, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 30
    • “[…] I asked the waitress. They use beef tallow for additional flavor.” / […] Vijay groaned. “I have rendered cow juices inside me. I’m going to be sick.”2001, C.D. Payne, Cut to the Twisp: The Lost Parts of Youth in Revolt and Other Stories, Sebastopol, Calif.: Aivia Press, →ISBN, page 55

Examples of cow juice in a sentence

  • “[…] Perhaps beef tea?” / “I had that boiled cow juice before, no thanks.”1967, Gavin Black [pseudonym; Oswald Wynd], chapter 7, in A Wind of Death (A Collins Novel of Suspense), London: Collins […], page 140:
  • These tiny white cracks caught cow juices and ragged slits of tobacco. […] Ira Sloan remembered: his mother smelled of hot pungent milk and sweet smoke.1976 fall, Brenda Peterson, “Days Pass Away like Smoke”, in The Sewanee Review, volume 84, number 4, →ISSN, page 545:
  • The French treat butter as if it were meat juice twice removed, and it is a form of natural sauce if thought of as condensed cow juice.1983, Betty Fussell, “[Sauces] Butter Sauce”, in Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Andrews Beard, Raymond Craig...
  • “I’ll have a veggie wimpy and a cow juice,” she told the lunch Lady.2002, Nancy Krulik, Out to Lunch (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo; 2), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Forms of cow juice

pluralcow juices
alternative formcow-juice
alternative formcowjuice

Words formed from cow juice

Questions about cow juice

What does cow juice mean?
Cow juice means cow’s milk.
How do you use cow juice in a sentence?
“[…] Perhaps beef tea?” / “I had that boiled cow juice before, no thanks.”
What part of speech is cow juice?
Cow juice is a noun.
What is the plural of cow juice?
The plural of cow juice is cow juices.

Words near cow juice in the dictionary

  1. cow hitch
  2. cow hitches
  3. Cow Hug Day
  4. cow itch
  5. cow itches
  6. cow juice
  7. cow juices
  8. cow killer
  9. cow killers
  10. cow lilies
  11. cow lily

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