BRIPKIN
Cow´cat, n. 1. A person whose main function is to occupy space. An insignificant, or negligible personality. 2. A guest who contributes nothing to the success of an affair; one invited to fill up, or from a sense of duty. 3. An innocent bystander.
The cowcat will not talk, but oh, how he listens! How he watches! How he criticises! But why speak of the cowcat as “he”? They usually have large, black satin, placid abdomens, or else they are thin and nervous, with acid eyes. (See Yowf.)
How describe a cowcat? There’s nothing about it to describe. It’s a jelly-fish—a heavy jelly-fish, however. It sits upon your stomach, like a nightmare.
Cowcats fill hotel chairs, and the rockers of summer verandahs, knitting gossip. (See Mooble.)
Your wife’s relatives?
The cowcats in the corners sat,
And brooded ’gainst the wall,
And some were thin and some were fat,
But none would talk at all.