cowish

(ˈkaʊɪʃ)

(Plants) the common name for Peucedanum Cous, an umbelliferous plant with an edible tuberous root found in North America

cowish

(ˈkaʊɪʃ)

adj

timorous; having the nature of a cow

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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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And yet, if you have some tricky, cowish sort of animal, then he's the man to have on your side."

Quietly working his way to the top; Tim Sprake is fifth in the jockeys' table, but has got there almost unnoticed

People who want to open up debate on all kinds of things get very sacred cowish about other things that might need revision.