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killcow

noun

Etymology

From kill + cow.

  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. compounded as killcow — “kill + cow”

Definitions

  1. A butcher.

    • Of all occupations that now adays are used / I would not be a butcher, for that's to be refused; / For whatever is gotten, or whatever is gained, / He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named.
    • And how do I look now? Like one that was begotten under a butcher's stall, I warrant, and born in a slaughter-house? I know there's never a Kill-cow i' th' city becomes a woollen apron better than I do.

  2. A violent person

    A violent person; a bully; a brutal or indiscriminate killer.

    • Muster his arrant braveries together, and where such a terrible kill-cow, or such a vengeable bull-beggar, to deal withal?

The neighborhood

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