Definition of Cowheard

1. a coward [n -S] - See also: coward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowheard

cowflap
cowflaps
cowflesh
cowflop
cowflops
cowgirl
cowgirled
cowgirling
cowgirls
cowhage
cowhages
cowhand
cowhands
cowheard (current term)
cowheards
cowhearted
cowheel
cowheels
cowherb
cowherbs
cowherd
cowherds
cowhide
cowhided
cowhides
cowhiding
cowhidings
cowhouse

Literary usage of Cowheard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"Scogin, revolving in his mind the cow- heard's words, did set up his horse at a poore man's house, and returned to the cowheard, supposing that he had beene ..."

2. Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century by John Ashton (1883)
"The cowheard said twenty miles. May I, said Scogin, ride thither to night: yea, ... Scogin said to the cowheard, what shall I give thee to tell mee, ..."

3. Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century by John Ashton (1883)
"The cowheard said twenty miles. May I, said Scogin, ride thither to night: yea, ... Scogin said to the cowheard, what shall I give thee to tell mee, ..."

4. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory, Thomas Wright (1865)
"I suppose nay," said the cowheard. " Fetch thy wife afore me," said Merlin," and she shall not say nay." Anon the wife was fet,3 which was a faire houswife ..."

5. A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond by Henry Fishwick (1884)
"1673 cowheard, Edward, of Cartmell, F 1646 cowheard, John, ... John, of Stone-dykes, F 1662 cowheard, William, ..."

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