Definitions

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  • noun Geordie, slang A pill, especially of ecstasy.
  • noun UK, northeast Left-hander.

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Examples

  • I was only a callan o 'some thirteen summers then, and when we had to leave the wee croft and sell the cows we were fain to live in a lonely shieling on the bare brae side, just a butt and a ben with a wee kailyard, and barely enough land to grow potatoes and keep a little Shetland cowie.

    Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

  • One afternoon many years back, I visited her room and she showed me all her cowie collections.

    A Journey Called LIFE... 2008

  • One of the cowie, she kept it inside her car and named it as

    A Journey Called LIFE... 2008

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