Cowie

AIDS

(Edinburgh, Scotland)

etymology uncertain?; rhyming slang - cow-shed = dead

Always called 'the cowie' rather than just 'cowie'.

Sometimes again subjected to further rhyming slang and changed to David Bowie.

Another name for the David Bowie, is the Billy Cyrus; the virus (HIV)

"They gied him a blood test for the cowie, that Aids. ..."

Skagboys, Irvine Welsh

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