cow-orker

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See also: coworker and co-worker

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Etymology

Deliberate corruption of co-worker, perhaps in imitation of pronunciation errors in early text-to-speech software.

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Noun

cow-orker (plural cow-orkers)

  1. (humorous) co-worker
    • 1989, Charles Anderson, “Re: Words (mundane)”, in alt.sca (Usenet):
      The above quote has been rated as gross, digusting, and tacky by my cow-orkers at work...are you a cow orker?
    • 1998, cluelessnewbie, Re: I give up on alt.slack, alt.slack,
      At this point, my cow-orker got real pissed off and firmly and courageously said: Hey, as a result of channeling, I discovered I used to be a cow in a previous lifetime.
    • 2006, Richard Bos, “Re: Casting malloc (was: Reading a string of unknown size)”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):
      You must be a popular cow-orker.

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