Suffolkn.

1797 in Young Agric. Suffolk 185 The Suffolk milk gave two and one-third ounces more cream than the horned one.]

1831 W. Youatt Horse iv. 39 The immense power of the Suffolk is accounted for by the low position of the shoulder.

1834 W. Youatt Cattle 175 In no part of the kingdom were the farmers more careless as to the breed, providing only that the cows were true Suffolks.

1846 W. Youatt Pig 66 A cross between the Suffolk and Lincoln.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 193/2 The Suffolk..probably took its origin in the crossing of improved Southdown rams with the old horned Norfolk ewes.

1928 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 17/7 Quick-actioned, weight-shifting Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolks, or Percheron horses.

1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow xiii. 181 He knew the Suffolks so well..that he could pick out a horse's breed by studying him.

1979 C. MacLeod Luck runs Out (1981) ii. 21 Those gorgeous Clydesdales and Percherons and Belgians and Suffolks..with their brasses polished like gold.

1980 ‘D. Shannon’ Felony File vii. 173 He's found the sheep... They're sixty dollars each. They're Suffolks.

1735 J. Kirby Suffolk Traveller 2 In this Part is made the Suffolk Butter, so managed by the Neat Dairy-Wife, that it is justly esteemed the pleasantest and best in England.

1636 W. Davenant Witts iii. i. sig. F4 A pound o' Suffolke Cheese.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 4 Oct. (1970) II. 191 I find my wife vexed at her people for grumbling to eate Suffolk cheese.

1797 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk 203 Cheese 5d., but Suffolk 3½d. and 4d.

1797 T. M. in Young Agric. Suffolk 180 (note) The true Suffolk polled cow.

1834 W. Youatt Cattle 175 The milking properties of the Suffolk cow.

1824 New Syst. Cookery (new ed.) 234 Yeast or Suffolk Dumplings.

1834 W. Youatt Cattle 174 The Suffolk Dun used to be celebrated..on account of the extraordinary quantity of milk that she yielded.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 389/1 A polled breed of cattle, the prevailing colour of which is dun or pale red, from which they are known as the Suffolk Duns.

1855 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (rev. ed.) xiii. 256 The receipt for the Suffolk ham.

1966 Times 28 Dec. 9/6 A genuine Suffolk ham man is Mr. R. Stiff of Kersey. He uses his own pigs and douses the hams in black treacle, spices and stout. They are then floated in tubs of sweet pickle.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 214/1 Suffolk pigs are perhaps..the most profitable breed in England.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Suffolk Bang, a very poor and hard kind of cheese.

1867 Sibson Agric. Chem. 249 Suffolk Coprolites are amongst the first known phosphatic minerals.

1852 C. Lyell Man. Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) 162 The Suffolk crag is divisible into two masses, the upper of which has been termed the Red, and the lower the Coralline Crag.

1759 B. Stillingfleet Observ. Grasses in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 203 What is known in some few counties by the name of the Suffolk grass.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 244 The Poa annua, or Suffolk-grass, is so short of growth..as to render it an incumberer of the soil.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 819/2 Suffolk Latch (Join.), a variant of the Norfolk Latch.

1972 Country Life 13 Jan. 98/1 The great variety of country door-latches would reward a study in depth: the well-known type, the ‘Suffolk latch’, is usually operated by a pivoted blade, which passing through the door and depressed by thumb pressure, lifts the latch.

1981 ‘G. Gaunt’ Incomer xviii. 117 Les Taunton thumbed down the Suffolk latch of the Queen's Head taproom and entered.

1784 J. Cullum Hist. & Antiq. Hawsted in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 23. 222 This breed is well known by the name of Suffolk Punches.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 644 The Suffolk-punches, which are common in the district called High Suffolk.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xix. 200 A Suffolk Punch, when he's a good un, is worth his weight in gold.

1794 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk xiii. 33 The Norfolk breed of sheep spread over almost every part of the county; and as the most famous flocks are about Bury..it has been observed, that they ought rather to be called the Suffolk breed.]

1893 J. Wrightson Sheep viii. 75 The original Suffolk sheep existed in famous flocks during Arthur Young's time.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Bang Suffolk Thump.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Suffolk powder, the name of a medicinal powder, good for the bite of a mad dog. It had its name from a Countess of Suffolk, who used to give it with great success.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 10 From the Suffolcean side yet those which Stour preferre Their princely Orwell praise.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 23 Where words occur, not readily understood by the Unsuffolked reader, he is to take them as Suffolcisms.