COW

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cow¹ substantiv

1. plural cows şi înv. kine vacă;

young cow junincă; juncă;

that cow is a good milker vaca aceasta dă mult lapte;

(glumeţ) the cow with the iron tail cişmeaua de la care toarnă lăptarul apă în lapte;

till / until the cows come home veşnic, o veşnicie, mereu, totdeauna;

(prov.) if you sell the cow, you sell her milk too când vinzi vaca, îi vinzi şi laptele;

(prov.) many a good cow hath a bad calf nu e pădure fără uscături;

milch cow vacă de muls (şi fig.);

(amer. fam.) to salt the cow to catch the calf a-ţi ajunge / atinge ţinta pe căi ocolite.

2. femela bovinelor; femela elefantului etc.; balenă etc.

3. plural vite de lapte.

4. (amer. sl.) lapte; smântână; unt; caimac, produse lactate.

cow² substantiv (tehn.)

1. dom, calotă; capac; deflector.

2. frână automată.

cow³ verb tranzitiv

(şi to cow down) a speria, a băga în sperieţi, a băga frica în; a intimida, a teroriza, a pune la respect.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

So the old woman went to the Wicked Witch of the East, and promised her two sheep and a cow if she would prevent the marriage.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

What a shame to take my horse, and give me only a dry cow!

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Tell him, said he, that I shall have ten cows and a bull too, if it be but a little one.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the effect upon White Fang was not to cow him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

We were so cowed by the sight that I think we should have given the job up if it had not been for Prendergast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Plenty cow, plenty land, plenty grass.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Well, now, Watson, how many cows did you see on the moor?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they began to talk, I thought I never heard or saw any thing more unnatural; for it appeared to me as monstrous as if a dog or a cow should speak in England, or a Yahoo in Houyhnhnmland.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I gave a cow for it.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

“And what is this red cow, Simon?” asked Alleyne.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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