cowpat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Goodman's famous Strictly nuggets included "It was like a cowpat on Countryfile - hot and steamy" and "You flew across the floor like a rampant crab" to presenter Anita Rani and her pro partner Gleb Savchenko in 2015.
From BBC
I ordered a stylish ash-blonde wig; a Donald Trump orange cowpat wig arrived.
From The Guardian
Having witnessed the burial, Gascoigne was to provide the final flourish, emptying over the hare a fresh cowpat from a Tupperware box.
From BBC
We’ve found 23 species of dung beetle in a single cowpat, one of which – the violet dor beetle – hasn’t been seen in Sussex for 50 years.
From The Guardian
They are enough to banish any clichéd thought of what the modernist composer Elisabeth Lutyens memorably called “cowpat music.”
From New York Times
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