cow-creamer

cow-creamer (plural cow-creamers)

1. Alternative form of cow creamer.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     This cow-creamer, in case you’re interested, was a silver jug or pitcher or whatever you call it shaped, of all silly things, like a cow with an arching tail and a juvenile-delinquent expression on its face, a cow that looked as if it were planning, next time it was milked, to haul off and let the milkmaid have it in the lower ribs.

   • 1989, Judith Miller, Martin Miller, editors, Miller’s Understanding Antiques, London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 84, column 4:

     Other Whieldon wares include cottages (with figures) and cow-creamers – milkjugs modelled in the shape of cow, with the tail curved to form the handle, the mouth pierced for the spout, and a hole in the back for filling.

   • 2006, Susan Hiller, “Working Through Objects, 1994”, in Charles Merewether, editor, The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art, London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     I put it together with the two cow-creamers (we call them creamers in the USA, here they’re called milkjugs, I know that, and it’s interesting that both terms have sexual connotations) and what I want to point out about them to you is that they vomit milk, which makes them fascinating cultural artefacts.