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bovinity

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bovinity
the state or quality of being like a cow or ox, especially in the sense of being dull, stolid, and slow-witted. — bovine, adj.
See also: Idiocy


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Just a few weeks ago Tommy broke another ticket selling record when all 12,000 seats for his Bovinity show in Cork sold out.
27) Joel Relihan defines the genre as 'a satire in the sense of a mixture of opposites, of things that do not belong together'; it is 'so fashioned of warring components as to make it a literary anomaly'--a sublime bovinity or bovine sublimity; finally, it is 'a fantastic tale that calls into question the intelligence and perception of its author/narrator' (1993, 20), (28) which is a particular apposite concept to explain Emma's habit of uncritical reading.
Most popular was the new Bovinity Divinity, a combination of chocolate and white chocolate ice cream with milk chocolate cows mixed in.
 
 
 
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