Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
- n. A plant found in the valley of the Columbia river, probably some species of Peucedanum. The root is of the size of a walnut, and resembles in taste the sweet potato.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
- n. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.
Examples
“BOROWITZ: You know, given that she likes to sue people, I really want to give Amy tremendous credit for calling her "cowish" on television.”
“The air blowing through the vents in my classroom has a sour, cowish scent to it.”
“She was looking sort of cowish, you know, well beyond her "Chicago" days.”
“Providence, and to prevent the abuse of these mercies by cowish gambols.”
“Gloster, for Regan, is an ingrateful fox: Albany, for his wife, has a cowish spirit and is milk-liver'd: when Edgar as the”
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
“The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.”
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