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cowlet

noun

Etymology

From cow + -let.

  1. inherited from cūna — “cows', of cows”
  2. inherited from kyne
  3. inherited from *gʷṓws✻
  4. inherited from *kōz✻
  5. inherited from *kō✻
  6. inherited from cū
  7. inherited from cow
  8. suffixed as cowlet — “cow + let”

Definitions

  1. A young or little cow

    A young or little cow; a female calf.

    • A lurid lumination lights lithe Laura’s eyes, / (O, tender cowlet, kick the bucket o’er)— / A look of anger and of pained surprise, / A look that ne’er had lit those orbs before.
    • Separate all cowlets from the cows, as they drink all the milk. Cowlets should be earning their own living.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for cowlet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA