Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mad cow

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables
mad -cow
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Uncountable

noun

A cow afflicted with mad cow disease.

Countable

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mad, cow.

Uncountable

Etymology

Ellipsis of mad cow disease.

Usage

Inflected Forms

mad cows (plural)

Questions

What does mad cow mean?
Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Where does mad cow come from?
Ellipsis of mad cow disease.

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