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cowtown

noun

cowtown is a noun meaning “A small town, a hick or backwards town” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-W-T-O-W-N, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cowtown is cowtowns.

What does cowtown mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangA small town, a hick or backwards town.

  2. 2

    A town or city noted for its link to the cattle industry.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cowtown?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cowtown.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cowtown

  • cowtowns plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is cowtown?

Cowtown appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Cowtown in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense small, hick or backwards town:

LanguageWords
GermanKaff, Kuhdorf

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does cowtown come from?

From cow + town.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).