cow-orker

noun

co-worker

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Meanings

nouncow-orker (plural cow-orkers)

plural cow-orkers · alternative cow orker

  1. humorousco-worker

    You must be a popular cow-orker.

    2006, Richard Bos, “Re: Casting malloc (was: Reading a string of unknown size)”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet)
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    The above quote has been rated as gross, digusting,^([sic]) and tacky by my cow-orkers at work...are you a cow orker?

    1989, Charles Anderson, “Re: Words (mundane)”, in alt.sca (Usenet)

    1998, cluelessnewbie, Re: I give up on alt.slack, alt.slack, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/msg/2e925ed61ecb16d0?dmode=source&hl=en At this point, my cow-orker got real pissed off and firmly and courageously said: Hey, as a result of channeling, I discovered I used to be a cow in a previous lifetime.

Origin

Deliberate corruption of co-worker, perhaps in imitation of pronunciation errors in early text-to-speech software.

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