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   cow

   /kaʊ/

   noun

   • 1. a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef: "a dairy cow"
   • ▪ (loosely) a domestic bovine animal, regardless of sex or age.
   • ▪ (in farming) a female domestic bovine animal which has borne more than one calf.
   • ▪ the female of certain other large animals, for example elephant, rhinoceros, whale, or seal.
   • 2. an unpleasant or disliked woman: derogatory "what does he see in that cow?"
   • ▪ an unpleasant person or thing. informal Australian, New Zealand

   Word Origin Old Englishcū, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koe and German Kuh, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin bos and Greek bous.

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