Careful Words

cow (n.)

cow (v.)

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Beaumont And Fletcher: Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. iii. Chap. viii. 1772.