Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stock-owner; an owner of cattle; a ranchman.

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Examples

  • I feel very strongly that the ten-foot cow-man I get to be in World of Warcraft is as accurate an extension of my inner personality as any realistic avatar I've ever fretted over.

    Heroine SVGL 2009

  • I feel very strongly that the ten-foot cow-man I get to be in World of Warcraft is as accurate an extension of my inner personality as any realistic avatar I've ever fretted over.

    Archive 2009-09-01 SVGL 2009

  • As a Shaman (see below), he could also have chosen a troll (blue-skinned Jamaican-like monster) or an orc (green-skinned Klingon-like monster), so there must be something about the cow-man that appeals to his liberal guilt.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Second Life has captured the imagination of many people such as those Greg lists above -- almost all of whom are speaking to or writing for audiences generally unfamiliar with virtual worlds and who are unlikely to be captivated by the prospect of playing an undead warlock or cow-man shaman.

    Second Life 2006

  • The scientists among people had created the underpeople, had given them capacities which real people did not have (the fifty-meter jump, the telepath two miles underground, the turtle-man waiting a thousand years next to an emergency door, the cow-man guarding a gate without reward), and the scientists had also given many of the underpeople the human shape.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • Peter inquired, with a few expletives, "how long he had been a cow-man, in good and regular standing?"

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • The cow-man was bringing up the cows to be milked, and he looked astonished as he greeted his mistress.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • As far as I can remember there was Mr. Thomas Johns, the manager, his wife and his son Cliff, an odd man — is roustabout the right word? — called Albert Black, three shepherds, five visiting shearers, a wool classer, three boys, two gardeners, a cow-man and a station cook.

    Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945

  • “On the night of the disappearance, the shearers, the gardeners, the boys, the station cook, the classer, the shepherds and the cow-man were all at an entertainment held some fifteen miles away?”

    Died in the Wool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1945

  • I've got just on their say-so -- mind you, that ain't the general run -- pickin ''em in the dark, I'd tie to a cow-man every time -- but there's exceptions, as the fellow says, to every rule.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

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