keow

Yola

Alternative forms

• keouw

Etymology

From Middle English cou, from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/
• Homophones: keough, keowe

Noun

keow (plural keeine or keene or khyne)

1. cow
   • 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 102:

     Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,

     Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 49