cow cocky

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Noun

cow cocky (plural cow cockies)

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) a small-scale dairy farmer
- 2018, Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, →ISBN, page 135:
  Three months in hospital being poked and prodded like a preize heifer and then it's the long way home for me when the last damn thing I want to do is be a cow cocky like my dad or a flamin' sheep farmer like the old man.

References

“cow cocky” (US) / “cow cocky” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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