单词 | muley |
释义 | muley1/ˈmjuːli /adjective chiefly US (Of cattle) hornless.You big boys seem to be like the muley cows in Oklahoma, who do not like to hook horns because muley cows by definition don't have horns....
OriginLate 16th century (as noun): perhaps from Irish maol or Welsh moel, literally 'bald', used in the sense 'hornless cow'. The adjective dates from the mid 19th century. Compare with moiley. muley2/ˈmjuːli /(also mulie) noun (plural muleys or mulies) US informal A mule deer.Even when they are relatively young, however, whitetails and muleys are much larger than coyotes; their hooves are dangerous, often fatal, to coyotes that overstep predatory bounds....
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