英语词汇cow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cow
词源	cow [OE] The female animal is an Old English word. The verb cow [L16th], meaning ‘to intimidate’, is a different word, probably from Old Norse kúga ‘to oppress’. See also bull. The expression till the cows come home, ‘for an indefinitely long time’, dates from at least the 16th century. ‘I warrant you lay a bed [in bed] till the cows came home’, wrote Jonathan Swift in 1738.
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