cowpiss
cowpiss noun: cow urine.
Noun
cowpiss (uncountable)
- Cow urine.
- Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail.1964, William Humphrey, “Sam Ordway’s Revenge”, in The Ordways, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1965, →LCCN, page 249
- ‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t. I would have told you what it was. We took it from a sick cow to give to the veterinarian for urinalysis.’ Brendan, gasping ‘cowpiss’, ran outraged at full...1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page 294
- Synonyms:
- cow urine, gomutra
Adjective
cowpiss (not comparable)
- Of the color of cow urine.
- It’s that I spent last night with Toady, and going home at 7:30 in the gray cowpiss California morning—all passion spent and reeling with unrealized bliss—and going straight to work, I was this morning—when I got your letter—as encased in formaldehyde, and all the liquor had I gotten drunk on...1934 February 22, Clement Greenberg, edited by Janice Van Horne, The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual, published 2003, →ISBN, page 119
- Doris has set the tables with flowers and candles and black-and-white checked tablecloths and every one of them has four Philadelphians with bibs on like big sunburnt children, grinning at each other over dead red lobsters and cowpiss yellow wine.2002, William Carpenter, The Wooden Nickel, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 211–212
Examples of cowpiss in a sentence
- ‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t.1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page...
- And when the hopeful women came near, the farmers raised up crop-sprayers, and covered them in cowpiss.1983 July 30, Alex Hamilton, “The stamp of individuality”, in The Guardian, page 6:
- cows rub shoulders against their stalls / chains rattling the night / there’s wheezing everywhere, the swish of tails / the devil, riding cowpiss manure, keeps watch1985, Daniël Daen, “The Prodigal Son”, in Rod Jellema, transl., Country Fair: Poems from Friesland since 1945, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William...
- Petey was pretty sure it was mostly straw with a little grass plus maybe oregano and cowpiss mixed in or something.1986, Frederick Busch, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 5:
Synonyms of cowpiss
- cow urine
- gomutra
Origin of cowpiss
Inherited from Middle English cowpisse; equivalent to cow + piss.
Questions about cowpiss
- What does cowpiss mean?
- Cowpiss means cow urine.
- How do you use cowpiss in a sentence?
- ‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t.
- What part of speech is cowpiss?
- Cowpiss can be a noun or an adjective.
Words near cowpiss in the dictionary
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