hoof-and-mouth disease

American  

[hoof-uhn-mouth, hoof-] / ˈhʊf ənˈmaʊθ, ˈhuf- /

noun

1. foot-and-mouth disease.

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Etymology

Origin of hoof-and-mouth disease

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

Midwest cattle producers have no grudge against their counterparts in Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports.

From Time Magazine Archive

He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Department of Agriculture, Genentech is already working on a vaccine against hoof-and-mouth disease, which kills off millions of food-producing animals a year round the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

To her surprise she learned that the hoof-and-mouth disease had begun to rage among the cattle of California, that Arizona had taken fright and had promptly clapped into quarantine all travelers from that direction.

From Time Magazine Archive

A television journalist in the Farm Belt once said this about a suspected outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease: The pasture contained several cows seen by news reporters that were dead, diseased, or dying.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner