cowp

A filthy and disgusting place.

Ladies, please bring a supply of bog roll - Studio One is within the five star (!) Hilton hotel, but the bar itself is a cowp and you never know what to expect in the lavvies...

As often is the case with brilliant but single-minded dusty old academics, his brain was a cathedral but his house was a cowp, something Sarah could vouch for, having visited a couple of times.

A reversal of fortune; an unexpected misfortune.

However, here's our young friend here never heard it, and it will be a treat to her, especially if what they say of young ladies in general be true, that the mischances and misadventures and cowps of us old bachelors are just marrow to their bones.

It shows man's want o' fore-seet truly, In not considering matters duly, And gives him monie ill-far'd cowps, Whea, gowk-leyke, luiks not 'fore he loups.

To fall or tip over.

He first manoeuvres them awhile, and then gets in a rage, Because he canna gar them fire nor han' to han' engage ; He grasps the warlike captain's ship, an' driving 't owre the tide, He scatters a' the foemen's ships an' cowps them on their side.

So it happened one day as Tom went into the master's house, the wife was stooping into a big meal barrel to bring out some meal ; there he takes her by the feet and cowps her up into the barrel with her head down, and her bare backside upper-most ; then runs into the school, crying, " O ! master, master ! the deel's looking out of your meal stand wi' a fat face, and a black ill far'd mouth : yon's just auld nick and he be living."