calf

Examples

• All

• We didn't see one of them, the big bull, but there was a mother with her calf and the calf was pretty big as well.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• If you were ranching this kind of country, losing the occasional calf was part of the deal.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Well, that calf could have been mine.

  The Last Sunset (1961)

• A third female produced a live calf on 15 May 2011.

  Academic text (2012)

• Get Daisy and the calf and the horse!

  In Old Chicago (1938)

• Her newborn calf was lost in the Bush

• Today I brought in a hairless Holstein calf from a dairy farm.

  Mars (2024)

• The cows had begun lowing, and the calf, sensing fear from them, began bawling.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Near Ellen Lake, Buchert spots a moose cow and calf lying together under a balsam fir.

  Academic text (2009)

• The farmer was excited when the calf was born early in the morning.

Synonyms

V

veau

vscalf

9.9

A calf that still drinks milk from its mother

has the same meaning but is a different word form

U

unweaned calf

vscalf

7.2

A young cow or bull that still drinks its mother's milk

refers more broadly to young domestic bovines, not only those still fed by mothers

Idioms

K

to kill the fatted calf

• Literature

1 8.9

Give someone a large special party with lots of food

A

at the altar of the golden calf

• Literature

9.9

Give up what is right to get money or power

Compounds

G

golden calf

2 8.1

Something that people value too much, often money or things

C

calf roping

• NSFW

1 9.1

A rodeo event where a rider on horseback chases, lassos, and ties a calf's legs quickly

C

calf love

• Archaic

1 7.5

A short innocent romantic feeling that teenagers often have

B

box calf

• Specialized

8.7

Smooth shiny leather made from the skin of a young cow and used for high quality shoes and bags

C

calf bone

• Specialized

4.6

The outer, thinner bone in the lower leg between the knee and ankle, also called the fibula

M

mid-calf

4.5

The middle part of the lower leg between the knee and the ankle

U

unweaned calf

7.2

A young cow or bull that still drinks its mother's milk

How Young

adult

103 1.0

yearling

8 6.5

weaner

• Specialized

6.8

calf

30 1.0

newborn

12 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology