transcription, транскрипция: [ kaʊ ]
( cows, cowing, cowed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A cow is a large female animal that is kept on farms for its milk. People sometimes refer to male and female animals of this species as cows .
Dad went out to milk the cows.
...a herd of cows.
N-COUNT
see also cattle
2.
Some female animals, including elephants and whales, are called cows .
...a cow elephant.
N-COUNT : oft N n
3.
If someone describes a woman as a cow , they dislike her and think that she is unpleasant or stupid. ( INFORMAL, OFFENSIVE )
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]
4.
If someone is cowed , they are made afraid, or made to behave in a particular way because they have been frightened or badly treated. ( FORMAL )
The government, far from being cowed by these threats, has vowed to continue its policy.
...cowing them into submission.
= intimidate
VERB : be V-ed , V n into n / -ing
• cowed
By this time she was so cowed by the beatings that she meekly obeyed.
ADJ : oft ADJ by n
5.
see also mad cow disease , sacred cow