Meaning of cowpiss | Babel Free

Definitions

Cow urine.

uncountable, vulgar

Examples

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

“‘⸺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.”

“Smell like every barn in the world. Hay, mud, cowpiss.”

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

“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”

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

“Grab yourself a cold Lone Star longneck. Pop the top, take a swig, swish it around your mouth, savor the unique flavor. You’re enjoying the National Beer of Texas. Tastes like cowpiss cause it is cowpiss.”

“Rusi, nodding, was eating the froglegs happily enough — but he, of course, had drunk cowpiss just as willingly during our navjote.”

“[…]the virtues of drinking ‘cowpiss’ as an expurgative[…]”

““Hang onto the boat,” Joe called back, and ran up the steep, stony path to where he’d parked, and there it was, clean as cowpiss, his red Chevy pickup hunkered down on four flats, with the valve stems lying around on the ground where someone’d dropped them.”

“He picked up Vince’s abandoned Guinness and took a swig. “Jesus, that’s real cowpiss, isn’t it?[…]””

““Esoteric? Don’t be talking, man. It’s plain as cowpiss. Half the world’s problems would go away if we all accepted God and, having accepted Him, admitted that we’d been looking for Him all along.””

“They flipped through a Penthouse that Brandon had been carrying in his backpack as the mosquitoes buzzed around the muddy herd of cattle. Bugs skimmed across the murky water. They watched the sun set over the distant treeline in shining streaks of orange as cowpiss splashes sounded from behind them, and in the calming air of the dusk they relaxed silently as their sweat evaporated into the fading light.”

“Shadow-flit, / Ink-gleam and quill-shine, late now in the day / I need their likes, freshets and rivulets / Starting from nowhere, capillaries of joy / Frittered and flittering like the scimitar / Of cowpiss in the wind that David Thomson / Flashed on my inner eye from the murky byre / Where he imagined himself a cow let out in spring / Smelling green weed, up to his hips in grass.”

““Hey—how about a snort of something good. Take a break from that cowpiss.” He brought a bottle of dark liquor from the cabin.”

“The water had been warm as cowpiss in the shallows but as the line squished forward the chill made me want to either get in or get out.”

“But we signed that cowpiss agreement and now the bastard’s suing me.”

“He himself felt rough / (Because this lady had a cowpiss scent)”

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