Old-fashioned slang for butter, playing up the fact that butter is, at its core, processed fat from a cow.
Old-fashioned slang for butter, playing up the fact that butter is, at its core, processed fat from a cow. The term leans into a slightly crude, no-nonsense view of food that was common in earlier working-class vernacular. While you won't hear many people ordering 'cow grease' at a restaurant today, it persists in historical texts, folk humor, and the occasional ironic use by someone who enjoys watching polite guests flinch.
He slathered a thick layer of cow grease on his bread and declared it the finest thing he'd eaten all week.
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(slang) Butter.