cow juice

See also: cow-juice and cowjuice

English

Alternative forms

cow-juice, cowjuice

Pronunciation

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Noun

cow juice (usually uncountable, plural cow juices)

(informal, humorous, idiomatic) Cow’s milk.
- [1796, [Francis Grose], “Cow Juice”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 3rd edition, London: […] [Samuel] Hooper and [Henry] Wigstead, […], →OCLC, signature [H3], recto:
  Cow Juice. Milk.]
- 1966, Joan Williams, Old Powder Man, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →LCCN, page 280:
  She called, “Alice Jean, a cow juice,” and laughed, exposing gold fillings. “We seen it ordered that way in a picture show,” she said. Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.
- 1967, Gavin Black [pseudonym; Oswald Wynd], chapter 7, in A Wind of Death (A Collins Novel of Suspense), London: Collins […], page 140:
  “[…] Perhaps beef tea?” / “I had that boiled cow juice before, no thanks.”
- 1976 fall, Brenda Peterson, “Days Pass Away like Smoke”, in The Sewanee Review, volume 84, number 4, →ISSN, page 545:
  [H]er fingers were brittle, broken at the wrinkles in her knuckles. These tiny white cracks caught cow juices and ragged slits of tobacco. […] Ira Sloan remembered: his mother smelled of hot pungent milk and sweet smoke.
- 1983, Betty Fussell, “[Sauces] Butter Sauce”, in Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Andrews Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, part three, page 126:
  The French treat butter as if it were meat juice twice removed, and it is a form of natural sauce if thought of as condensed cow juice.
- 2002, Nancy Krulik, Out to Lunch (Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo; 2), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
  “I’ll have a veggie wimpy and a cow juice,” she told the lunch Lady. “And for dessert I’d like an Eve with a lid.” […] She had no idea where the third-grader had learned the secret lunchroom language, but she gave Katie a veggie burger, a container of milk, and a slice of apple pie anyway.
- 2007 February 9, Ben Carrozza, Heather Adler, Jen McDonnell, “Sequel machine sucks life out of films”, in CanWest News, Don Mills, Ont.: Postmedia Network, page 1:
  Plans for more sequels deserve to be sliced, diced, drown^[sic] in a vat of mulched cow juices and buried.
- 2014, Jonathan Clements, “[Eating and Drinking] Drink”, in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland, →ISBN:
  The baffled visitor will often encounter pasteurised milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, fat-free milk, cream, coffee cream, sour milk, fortified milk, and usually also a lactose-free, fat-free milk-free milk so removed from everyday cow juice that European Union food regulations insisted its name be changed Milk Drink (maitojuoma).
- 2015, John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard, chapter 22, in Empire (The Chronicles of the Invaders; 2), London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 143:
  ‘Cheese is fermented cow juices?’ / ‘Milk – gross!’
- 2017 June 15, River Donaghey, “A Lot of American Adults Think Brown Cows Make Chocolate Milk”, in Vice‎^[1], archived from the original on 2020-11-12:
  Chocolate milk is not the byproduct of brown cows; it is not gathered and siphoned into cartons after chocolate rainstorms; it's just normal cow juice with some cocoa mixed in.
- 2022, Gary T. Brideau, “A Change in Orders”, in The Mystery of the Blue Saphier, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
  Kitty stated, “My husband, me, and my daughter; Bella, and Constance, will have […] three coffees, and milk.” / The waitress hollered, “Order up! I need; […] 3 Angels on horseback, with 3 Belly warmers, and a cow juice!”
(informal, rare) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cow,‎ juice; liquids from beef.
- 1999, Hal Niedzviecki, “[The Pig Farm] Problems At Work”, in Lurvy: A Farmer’s Almanac, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 30:
  Lurvy doesn’t care what she heard, doesn’t care about expanding feed-bed carriers, automatic empty early-warning fertilizer attachment trays, steaks warm in cow juices.
- 2001, C.D. Payne, Cut to the Twisp: The Lost Parts of Youth in Revolt and Other Stories, Sebastopol, Calif.: Aivia Press, →ISBN, page 55:
  “[…] I asked the waitress. They use beef tallow for additional flavor.” / […] Vijay groaned. “I have rendered cow juices inside me. I’m going to be sick.”
- 2010 February 10, Nadia Arumugam, “Ignore Expiration Dates”, in Slate‎^[2], archived from the original on 2019-03-28:
  There’s a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetid cow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat.
- 2015, Maya Corrigan [pseudonym; Mary Ann Roman Corrigan], chapter 1, in Scam Chowder (A Five-Ingredient Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 2:
  He pointed to the two large pots on the stove. “Let’s go over what I’m supposed to do. I put cow juice in one of those pots and fish juice in the other. Which is which?” / “Put the broth in the light chowder on the left. […]”
- 2020, Nuan Se, Billionaire, Control Your Love‎^[3], volume 4, [Funstory], →ISBN:
  In the dining room, they each ordered a Mexican steak and a bottle of red wine. […] Ye Ling's manner of eating was very cute. He even brought the fat cow juice to his mouth and Di An once again wiped Ye Ling's mouth with a napkin.

Derived terms

frozen cow juice

References

“cow-juice, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.