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How Now Brown Cow

When someone is caught lying. How now is self explainitory. Brown Cow means that they are a liar. Works incredibly well if they are exposed for their lie.
Guy 1: Hey, I know what the capital of Illinois is. It's Chicago.

Guy 2: It's Springfield. How now brown cow?
How Now Brown Cow by gbee93 April 9, 2011

how now brown cow

Guy's slang for a hott girl.
Dude did you just see that how now brown cow?

There is a how now brown cow walking this way.
how now brown cow by Tepeki August 15, 2007

"How now brown cow?" 

"How now brown cow" is a phrase used in teaching a style of public speaking in which gesture, vocal production, and delivery are emphasized to demonstrate rounded vowel sounds.
Teacher: Work on your vowel sounds.

Student: "How now brown cow?"

Teacher: Rounder, please...

"How now brown cow?" 

"How now brown cow?"
I.E. (scene)
{"How.. now.. brown.. cow.."
*applaud*}
"How now brown cow?" by Srz July 24, 2006

How now, brown cow?

Those four words roll off the tongue as a lighthearted way of asking "What's up? What's next?" And that tripping lightly stuff makes sense, since "How now, brown cow" has its origin in elocution, where the phrase was used to demonstrate properly rounded vowels.
Ron: How now, brown cow?

Paul: Not much. Just on my way to catch a movie with my girl.

How now, brown cow?

It actually means, "What's next?" I read that on the Merriam Webster Dictionary site after trying to look it up here.
"How now, brown cow?"

"You're going to turn into a purple cow."

*poof*