Meaning of cowlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A young or little cow; a female calf.

Examples

“—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.””

“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.”

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

“After a short while a thin small cow was released from the gangway leading to the menagerie. Provided with a scarlet cape, Juanito strutted forward⟳ towards the scampering cowlet. […] So in vest and black clown’s pantaloons, he provoked the cowlet and played the heavy matador. With all the grand airs of a Bombita Chica or a Montes he advanced to the assault. The dutiful cowlet gave a low. The little cow almost laughed to see⟳ such sport.”

“Book Agent. Oh, so you are interested in farming? Isn’t that a coincidence? The Everyday Encyclopedia Of Useful Facts included a five-hundred-and-seventy-three-page volume on farm and country life. / Mr. Jordan. (Interested) It does! / Book Agent. It certainly does. I think⟳ I have⟳ some sample leaflets here. (Opens a briefcase and takes out a pamphlet with some colored pages in it) See⟳! Here is a picture showing a group of contented little cowlets browsing by a babbling brook. / Mr. Jordan. (Puzzled) Cow'''lets? / Book Agent. Yes, little cows. Aren’t they dears? / Mr. Jordan. I thought you said they were cows. / Book Agent. (Laughs) Now, aren’t you the clever one, though?”

““I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw⟳ grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have⟳ been close⟳ enough to make⟳ me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.”

“YES — imagine⟳, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand⟳ the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take⟳ the cow and bull side of the question⟳ first. REMEMBER⟳ — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.”

“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.”

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