| 单词 | bossy-calf |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbossy-calf = boss n.7; a calf or cow. Also bossy-calf, bossy-cow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] cowa800 nowtc1450 mower1673 colly1707 Scot1787 horny1808 moo-cow1810 sookie1838 bossy1844 sook1850 cow-creature1873 moo1930 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] calfa800 follower1424 bostrell1559 calfling1598 moggiec1825 bossy1844 deacon1873 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 181 She only bust out in a new spot; and, like a great bossy calf, I had to jine in again. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Bossy, a familiar name applied to a calf. 1863 ‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-days 95 Bossy starts from the post, tail up in a hand gallop. 1907 N.Y. Evening Post 25 Feb. 3 He..will go out to interview a bossy [cow] who has eaten her last wisp of hay. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xii. 314 A notion o' what it means to incorporate the fruit of the nest [sc. eggs] with the bossy. 1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman xiv. 196 Domesticated ‘bossies’ in pasture. 1927 H. Crane Let. 19 Mar. (1965) 291 I had just landed in town after three months with the bossy cows. < as lemmas |
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