Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Cows-and-kisses
subs. (rhyming slang).—The ‘missus,’ or mistress; also women generally.
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1887. J. W. HORSLEY, Jottings from Jail. Come, COWS-AND-KISSES, put the battle of the Nile on your Barnet fair, and a rogue and villain in your sky-rocket.
