Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the pustules of cowpox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cowpox .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
cowpox .
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Examples
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'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence.
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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If I hadnt a family, and that family hadnt the cowpock, said the waiter, I wouldnt take a sixpence.
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'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence.
David Copperfield 1850
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'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence.
David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841
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Let me know when your boy comes down, and also about the measles, cowpock, and whooping-cough; also if all's right with Mr. Plaskwith.
Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Let me know when your boy comes down, and also about the measles, cowpock, and whooping-cough; also if all's right with Mr. Plaskwith.
Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I conclude -- (this is Mrs. M's. suggestion) -- that he has had the measles, cowpock, and whooping-cough, which please let me know.
Night and Morning, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I conclude -- (this is Mrs. M's. suggestion) -- that he has had the measles, cowpock, and whooping-cough, which please let me know.
Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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‘If I hadn’t a family, and that family hadn’t the cowpock,’ said the waiter, ‘I wouldn’t take a sixpence.
David Copperfield 2007
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"If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock," said the waiter, "I wouldn't take a sixpence.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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