cowpiss

Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail.

1964, William Humphrey, “Sam Ordway’s Revenge”, in The Ordways, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1965, →LCCN, page 249

‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t. I would have told you what it was. We took it from a sick cow to give to the veterinarian for urinalysis.’ Brendan, gasping ‘cowpiss’, ran outraged at full speed the few hundred yards outside and down the side of the mountain to throw himself in the freezing waters of Loch Dan.

1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page 294

And when the hopeful women came near, the farmers raised up crop-sprayers, and covered them in cowpiss.

1983 July 30, Alex Hamilton, “The stamp of individuality”, in The Guardian, page 6

cows rub shoulders against their stalls / chains rattling the night / there’s wheezing everywhere, the swish of tails / the devil, riding cowpiss manure, keeps watch

1985, Daniël Daen, “The Prodigal Son”, in Rod Jellema, transl., Country Fair: Poems from Friesland since 1945, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Kampen: Catalogus Uitgeversmaatschappij J. H. Kok, →ISBN, page 173

Petey was pretty sure it was mostly straw with a little grass plus maybe oregano and cowpiss mixed in or something.

1986, Frederick Busch, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 5

It’s that I spent last night with Toady, and going home at 7:30 in the gray cowpiss California morning—all passion spent and reeling with unrealized bliss—and going straight to work, I was this morning—when I got your letter—as encased in formaldehyde, and all the liquor had I gotten drunk on coagulated and made a thick slime to coat my insides.

1934 February 22, Clement Greenberg, edited by Janice Van Horne, The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual, published 2003, →ISBN, page 119