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cowsense

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws Proto-Germanic *kōz Proto-West Germanic *kō Old English cū Middle English cow English cow Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English cowsense From cow + sense.

  1. derived from sense English sense English cowsense From cow + sense
  2. derived from *sennus Old French sensbor✻
  3. derived from *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor✻
  4. derived from *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor✻
  5. derived from *gʷṓws Proto-Germanic *kōz Proto-West Germanic *kō Old English cū Middle English cow English cow Proto-Indo-European *sent-der✻

Definitions

  1. An instinctive ability to work well with cattle.

    • He is uneducated, but possesses a quality too many of our college boys lack, viz., “cowsense” and stable experience.
    • Quannah was a handsome horse, well put up, with disposition and cowsense galore.

  2. Intelligence on the part of a cattle beast.

    • The Longhorn cow remained to become the founder of an empire. She matched wits with the wilderness, met claw and fang with horns and cowsense.

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