Cowpiss

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Cow urine. uncountable, vulgar

    "Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the color of cow urine. not-comparable, vulgar

    "It’s that I spent last night with Toady, and going home at 7:30 in the gray cowpiss California morning—all passion spent and reeling with unrealized bliss—and going straight to work, I was this morning—when I got your letter—as encased in formaldehyde, and all the liquor had I gotten drunk on coagulated and made a thick slime to coat my insides."

Example

More examples

"Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cowpisse; equivalent to cow + piss.

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