10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KILLCOW»
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killcow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London
In the expression " killcow," Nashe alludes to Shakespeare's father's trade. A few
years later — 1594 — Chapman refers to Shakespeare as "judgements butcher,"
and later still, in 1598, Florio in his dedication of the Worlde of Wordes, and, ...
Word. meanings: Kinchin – a child – – – to feel disgust body odour disorder Keck
Kakidrosis Kerfuffle Kasha – Kohlrabi Kippage Knubble Knackish Killcow Knout
Keckle – to protect by binding with rope – – – – – – porridge or gruellike dish ...
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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
In the expression "killcow," Nashe alludes to Shakespeare's father's trade. A few
years later1594Chapman refers to Shakespeare as "judgements butcher," and
laterstill,in 1598, Florio in his dedicationofthe Worldeof Wordes, and, in 1600, ...
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Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from His Life
His fame may even have followed him to London, for Nashe includes in his
onslaught on non-graduate playwrights in the epistle prefaced to Robert
Greene's Menaphon (1589) 'the engrafted overflow of some killcow conceit'. A '
killcow', as a ...
Katherine Duncan-Jones, 2001
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
A butcher: alsoa murderous ruffian. Also Killbuck. .... Old Ballad [quoted by Nares]
. Of all occupations that nowadays areused I wouldnot bea butcher,for that's to be
refused ; For whatever isgotten, or whateveris gained, He shall be call'd killcow ...
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Poplollies & Bellibones/Tenderfeet & Ladyfingers: A ...
A Celebration of Lost Words/A Compendium of Body Language Susan K.
Poering. A killbuck resembled a killcow in one respect only: both looked fierce
enough to terrorize— to cow— another person. But the term killcow went further.
It applied ...
Killcow (kilkau). In old-fashioned use on Cape Cod and in Cheshire County, N.H.,
in the phrases: "That's no great killcow," i.e., that's of no great account, that's no
matter; and "He's no great killcow," i.e., he doesn't amount to much (of a person ...
The relationship, forged by necessity, is reciprocal, and if either party should
weaken all is lost. AN INCONSPICUOUS PURLOINING Two local boys walk into
a shop to buy viands. As Killcow (for thus folk call him) turns his back, our boys
nick ...
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The London and Westminster Review
incompatible, tending towards evil before knowing it, or being capablt of it.” “ A
high heart under the jacket of a boy; it has a strange instinct of pride this creature;
noble withal; the embryo of,a shaggyheaded bully and killcow, that would ...
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Pierces Supererogation Or, A New Praise of the Old Asse: A ...
... must immortalise the killcow Affie. T 0 rzglzt worstzipfull his especial! dear frend
, M. Gaþriell Pierces Supererogation. I I.
Gabriel Harvey, John Payne Collier, 1593
