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humlie, humblie Sc.
[f. hummel a. + -y.]
A hummel or polled cow. Also attrib., as humlie-cow. In quots. 1818, 1825–80 transf.
1813J. Headrick Agric. Surv. Forfarsh. 439 (Jam.) A great proportion of the permanent stock are humlies, that is, they have no horns. 1816Scott Old Mort. iv, I gat the humlie-cow, that's the best in the byre..for ten pund Scots. 1818E. Burt's Lett. N. Scotl. II. 104 note, In the days of our grand-fathers the lower class of Highlanders, were..denominated humblies from their wearing no covering on their head but their hair. 1825–80Jamieson, Humlock, Humlie, ‘a polled cow; also a person whose head has been shaved, or hair cut’. |