Cowlet

Quick meaning: Cowlet is a noun meaning A young or little cow; a female calf.

Meaning

A young or little cow; a female calf.

Example Sentences

Separate all cowlets from the cows, as they drink all the milk. Cowlets should be earning their own living.

A lurid lumination lights lithe Laura’s eyes, / (O, tender cowlet, kick the bucket o’er)— / A look of anger and of pained surprise, / A look that ne’er had lit those orbs before.

—Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. “See,” said the young lady, “those two cute little cowlets.” “Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets.”

What’s a meta for anyway, I say, if not to mix with chicken lips, cow intestines and pig ganglia, foisted on poor defenseless cowlets held captive in feed lots for a significant portion of their tiny, meaningless lives, destined for the compressed air gun, the hook, and the heavy hammer, and the human Bar-B-Q bun, rotisserie and intestinal villi.

Word Forms

• cowlets

Synonyms for cowlet

Depending on context, synonyms include cowling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cowling, calfling, cauf, calfhood, calflick, collet.

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