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cove
A man or fellow; historically, a person referred to informally, sometimes with a qualifying description.
In a sentence
In this historical or contextual use, “cove” means a man or fellow; historically, a person referred to informally, sometimes with a qualifying description.
Where it came from
Included for independently attested colonial Australian continuation, not merely because it appears in Vaux.
- Initial era
- 1900–1999
- Where used
- Colonial Australia; also British cant