This week’s theme
Words made with animal parts

This week’s words
dogleg
stickybeak
moth-wing
griffonage
cowhearted


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PRONUNCIATION:

(KOW-har-tid)

MEANING:

adjective: Cowardly.

ETYMOLOGY:

From cow, from Old English cu (cow) + heart, from Old English heorte. Earliest documented use: 1660.

NOTES:

Coward contains no cow. It is from Latin cauda (tail). The word may evoke an animal with its tail between its legs or someone turning tail and fleeing. Cowhearted, however, really is cow + hearted, though its meaning was influenced by the similar-sounding coward. In short, coward is all tail and no cow. The cattle may wish to file a moo-tion for defamation.

USAGE:

“Palmering is too cowhearted to accept a challenge.”
Mona Gedney; Murder Most Indiscreet, in Murder at Almack’s; Zebra Books; 2003.

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