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male cow

noun

, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. a bull.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of male cow1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Example Sentences

In my language, when a child is born, we don’t say “boy” or “girl,” but lashe, which means “male cow,” or ngache, which means “female cow.”

We like a male cow to have big, even horns.

“Spiders don’t have a conventional sense of smell, he said. “So all those things are best describable as the term for the end product of a male cow.”

They wouldn’t hesitate tew say male cow.

An extraordinary affectation of propriety appeared in a dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution of October 29, 1912, which reported that an exhibitor of cattle at the State fair had been seriously horned by a male cow.

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