Definition of "cowp"
cowp
noun
plural cowps
(Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A filthy and disgusting place.
Quotations
(dialect) A reversal of fortune; an unexpected misfortune.
Quotations
verb
third-person singular simple present cowps, present participle cowping, simple past and past participle cowped
Quotations
He first manoeuvres them awhile, and then gets in a rage, Because he canna gar them fire nor han' to han' engage ; He grasps the warlike captain's ship, an' driving 't owre the tide, He scatters a' the foemen's ships an' cowps them on their side.
1883, Alexander G. Murdoch, The Scottish Poets Recent and Living, page 194
So it happened one day as Tom went into the master's house, the wife was stooping into a big meal barrel to bring out some meal ; there he takes her by the feet and cowps her up into the barrel with her head down, and her bare backside upper-most ; then runs into the school, crying, " O ! master, master ! the deel's looking out of your meal stand wi' a fat face, and a black ill far'd mouth : yon's just auld nick and he be living."
1883, Dougal Graham, George Mac Gregor, Jockey and Maggy's courtship