cowp
cowp noun: a filthy and disgusting place.
Noun
cowp (plural cowps)
- A filthy and disgusting place.
- Ladies, please bring a supply of bog roll - Studio One is within the five star (!) Hilton hotel, but the bar itself is a cowp and you never know what to expect in the lavvies...2004 August 17, west-ender, “West End Blues”, in uk.local.glasgow (Usenet)
- As often is the case with brilliant but single-minded dusty old academics, his brain was a cathedral but his house was a cowp, something Sarah could vouch for, having visited a couple of times.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 191
- A reversal of fortune; an unexpected misfortune.
- However, here's our young friend here never heard it, and it will be a treat to her, especially if what they say of young ladies in general be true, that the mischances and misadventures and cowps of us old bachelors are just marrow to their bones.1860, The Hallow-Isle tragedy, page 77
- It shows man's want o' fore-seet truly, In not considering matters duly, And gives him monie ill-far'd cowps, Whea, gowk-leyke, luiks not 'fore he loups.1866, Sidney Gilpin, The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland
Verb
cowp (third-person singular simple present cowps, present participle cowping, simple past and past participle cowped)
- To fall or tip over.
- He first manoeuvres them awhile, and then gets in a rage, Because he canna gar them fire nor han' to han' engage ; He grasps the warlike captain's ship, an' driving 't owre the tide, He scatters a' the foemen's ships an' cowps them on their side.1883, Alexander G. Murdoch, The Scottish Poets Recent and Living, page 194
- So it happened one day as Tom went into the master's house, the wife was stooping into a big meal barrel to bring out some meal ; there he takes her by the feet and cowps her up into the barrel with her head down, and her bare backside upper-most ; then runs into the school, crying, " O ! master...1883, Dougal Graham, George Mac Gregor, Jockey and Maggy's courtship
Examples of cowp in a sentence
- An overnight deluge has added to the weekend's sogginess and a few early revellers cowp into the mud to varying degrees of hilarity.2015 July 12, Amy Muir, “Down the Front: T in the Park 2015 in Pictures – Sunday”, in The Skinny:
- He trips and he cowps into the prickly thorns.2016 March 16, Angeline King, “Could Irish fiction sound a bit less, well, English?”, in Irish Times:
Forms of cowp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cowps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cowps |
| present participle | cowping |
| past participle | cowped |
| past | cowped |
Questions about cowp
- What does cowp mean?
- Cowp means a filthy and disgusting place.
- How do you use cowp in a sentence?
- An overnight deluge has added to the weekend's sogginess and a few early revellers cowp into the mud to varying degrees of hilarity.
- What part of speech is cowp?
- Cowp can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of cowp?
- The plural of cowp is cowps.
Words near cowp in the dictionary
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