cowhide

Other forms of cowhide

plural

cowhides·

past tense

cowhided·

present participle

cowhiding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowhide

What does cowhide mean?

cowhide means "leather made from the hide of a cow". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cowhide?

cowhide has 2 syllables: co-whide. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cowhide?

Close synonyms include cowskin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cowhide a common word?

cowhide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.