moo-cow
English
Alternative forms
- moo cow, moocow
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmuːkaʊ/
Noun
moo-cow (plural moo-cows)
- (childish or endearing) A cow.
- 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised
- At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984:
- Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo […]
- 1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised