moo-cow

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Etymology

Compare German Muhkuh and Italian mucca.

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Noun

moo-cow (plural moo-cows)

  1. (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:
      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 []