Crossword clues for heifer
heifer
- Member of a herd
- What Zeus transformed Io into
- Cow that hasn't had a cow
- Young cow
- Young bovine
- A young cow
- Cow that chap provided to ruler
- Writhe if erotica features young female
- Successor accepting reduced charge is a little lower
- Fire shot after male bovine
- Young cow unhappy here, if kept inside
- Young cow assistant provided for record
- Farm animal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heifer \Heif"er\, n. [OE. hayfare, AS. he['a]hfore, he['a]fore; the second part of this word seems akin to AS. fearr bull, ox; akin to OHG. farro, G. farre, D. vaars, heifer, G. f["a]rse, and perh. to Gr. ?, ?, calf, heifer.] (Zo["o]l.) A young cow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heahfore, West Saxon; Northumbrian hehfaro, heffera (plural), of unknown origin, not found outside English. The first element seems to be heah "high," common in Old English compounds with a sense of "great in size." The second element may be related to Old English fearr "bull," or to Old English faran "to go" (giving the whole a sense of "high-stepper"); but there are serious sense difficulties with both conjectures. Liberman offers this alternative:\n\nOld English seems to have had the word *hægfore 'heifer.' The first element (*hæg-) presumably meant 'enclosure' (as do haw and hedge), whereas -fore was a suffix meaning 'dweller, occupant' ....\n\nIn modern use a female that has not yet calved, as opposed to a cow, which has, and a calf, which is an animal of either sex not more than a year old. As derisive slang for "a woman, girl" it dates from 1835.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en zoology) A young cow, (qualifier: particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved. 2 (label en obsolete) A wife. 3 (label en informal depreciative obsolete) A girl. 4 (label en informal depreciative) A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
WordNet
n. young cow
Wikipedia
Heifer may refer to:
- A young cow before she has had her first calf
- The red heifer, in Christianity or Judaism, was a heifer that was sacrificed and whose ashes were used for the ritual purification
- Heifer International, a charitable organization
- Frank Heifer (1854–1893), American outfielder and first baseman
- Troy Ronald Hembury
Usage examples of "heifer".
They learned to ignore the heifers wearing the biocide collars, and they learned how to neutralize two of the fences.
I was examined with less respect, being a slave, than would have been accorded to a bosk heifer.
He was coming out of the byre directing a heifer by prodding its rump with a sharp stick, and he became still as he stared at her while the animal galloped away to the end of the yard.
Another went into the nose of the hornless heifer, which then commenced to run about, bawling piteously.
Tell, ancient hedger of Onchestus green, Whether a drove of kine has passed this way, All heifers with crooked horns?
They fed dying heifers hot pails of coffee, mercifully they shot dogs thinned by the nagana to sad bags of bones.
Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.
The women would try and run back after their pickaninnies when they dropped, just like that heifer when Warrigal knocked her calf on the head to-day.
Crockacooan on the following Thursday it would be possible to bid for three store heifers in forward condition, four dairy cows springing and in full milk, a slipe, three rundlets, and a number of double and single trees.
When we knew how many pregnant heifers we had, Nick called a man he knew who does artificial insemination, and we bought seed from a champion Salers bull.
He had a new, expensive Salers bull that he bred to some heifers, and he sold all the young bulls this year, except for his seed bull.
I said next thing down the hill whee and off out into the open country again cows looking over ditches, where are you off to Francie mind your own business you nosey heifer bastards, watch out dandelions here I come!
Greenberg, and John Heifers, an anthology of fairy-tales retold as science fiction, has some clever stuff in it.
He rose and walked around the brindled heifer, squatting down and squinting at her tail.
He nodded approvingly at the sow, then glanced at the brindled heifer.