cow cocky
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Pronunciation
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Noun
cow cocky (plural cow cockies)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A small-scale dairy farmer.
- Coordinate term: cowkeeper
- 2018, Ngaio Marsh, Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, →ISBN, page 135:
- Three months in hospital being poked and prodded like a preize heifer and then it's the long way home for me when the last damn thing I want to do is be a cow cocky like my dad or a flamin' sheep farmer like the old man.
References
- “cow cocky”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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