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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
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sionnach commented on the word chichevache
A giant cow that eats virtuous women, according to French myth.
March 7, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word chichevache
Oh my heavens, this is an awesome thing.
March 7, 2007
madmouth commented on the word chichevache
see wiki page for sexist literary antecedents.
July 3, 2009
john commented on the word chichevache
Best defense: don't be virtuous.
July 4, 2009
yarb commented on the word chichevache
I can't help imagining la vache qui rit.
July 4, 2009
erose commented on the word chichevache
I think the word was actually coined by Chaucer, and means "meagre cow," so named because it was supposedly all skin and bone, due to scarcity of its food source (good women).
July 4, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word chichevache
See also bicorne.
October 1, 2009