cowsense

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instinctive ability to work well with cattle. uncountable
    — The data tabulated from the replies on the question blanks show in general that there must be a co-ordination of all the factors conducive to the production of high quality milk, coupled with good sound “cowsense” on the part of the herdsman, to produce milk that will score 90 or above.
  2. Intelligence on the part of a cattle beast. uncountable
    — The Longhorn cow remained to become the founder of an empire. She matched wits with the wilderness, met claw and fang with horns and cowsense.

词形变化

cow-sense alternative cow sense alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Germanic *kōz
Proto-West Germanic *kō
Old English cū
Middle English cow
English cow
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English cowsense
From cow + sense.
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