cow juice

plural cow juices · alternative cow-juice · alternative cowjuice

1. humorousidiomaticinformaluncountableusuallyCow’s milk.

   Cow Juice. Milk.

   [1796, [Francis Grose], “Cow Juice”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 3rd edition, London: […] [Samuel] Hooper and [Henry] Wigstead, […], →OCLC, signature [H3], recto

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   She called, “Alice Jean, a cow juice,” and laughed, exposing gold fillings. “We seen it ordered that way in a picture show,” she said. Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.

   1966, Joan Williams, Old Powder Man, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 280

   “[…] Perhaps beef tea?” / “I had that boiled cow juice before, no thanks.”

   1967, Gavin Black [pseudonym; Oswald Wynd], chapter 7, in A Wind of Death (A Collins Novel of Suspense), London: Collins […], page 140

   [H]er fingers were brittle, broken at the wrinkles in her knuckles. These tiny white cracks caught cow juices and ragged slits of tobacco. […] Ira Sloan remembered: his mother smelled of hot pungent milk and sweet smoke.

   1976 fall, Brenda Peterson, “Days Pass Away like Smoke”, in The Sewanee Review, volume 84, number 4, →ISSN, page 545

   The French treat butter as if it were meat juice twice removed, and it is a form of natural sauce if thought of as condensed cow juice.

   1983, Betty Fussell, “[Sauces] Butter Sauce”, in Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Andrews Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, part three, page 126

   “I’ll have a veggie wimpy and a cow juice,” she told the lunch Lady. “And for dessert I’d like an Eve with a lid.” […] She had no idea where the third-grader had learned the secret lunchroom language, but she gave Katie a veggie burger, a container of milk, and a slice of apple pie anyway.

   2002, Nancy Krulik, Out to Lunch (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo; 2), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, pages 71–72

2. informalrareuncountableusuallyUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cow, juice; liquids from beef.

   “[…] I asked the waitress. They use beef tallow for additional flavor.” / […] Vijay groaned. “I have rendered cow juices inside me. I’m going to be sick.”

   2001, C.D. Payne, Cut to the Twisp: The Lost Parts of Youth in Revolt and Other Stories, Sebastopol, Calif.: Aivia Press, →ISBN, page 55

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   Lurvy doesn’t care what she heard, doesn’t care about expanding feed-bed carriers, automatic empty early-warning fertilizer attachment trays, steaks warm in cow juices.

   1999, Hal Niedzviecki, “[The Pig Farm] Problems At Work”, in Lurvy: A Farmer’s Almanac, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 30

   There’s a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetid cow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat.

   2010 February 10, Nadia Arumugam, “Ignore Expiration Dates”, in Slate, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019

   He pointed to the two large pots on the stove. “Let’s go over what I’m supposed to do. I put cow juice in one of those pots and fish juice in the other. Which is which?” / “Put the broth in the light chowder on the left.[…]”

   2015, Maya Corrigan [pseudonym; Mary Ann Roman Corrigan], chapter 1, in Scam Chowder (A Five-Ingredient Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 2

   In the dining room, they each ordered a Mexican steak and a bottle of red wine. […] Ye Ling's manner of eating was very cute. He even brought the fat cow juice to his mouth and Di An once again wiped Ye Ling's mouth with a napkin.

   2020, Nuan Se, Billionaire, Control Your Love, volume 4, [Funstory], →ISBN