moo-cow

plural moo-cows · alternative moo cow · alternative moocow

1. childishendearingA cow.

   At the end of the line nearest the Arch, under a flary light, stood an old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat irritated moo-cow.

   1914, Irvin S. Cobb, Europe Revised

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   Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo[…]

   1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC