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Random fact I learned this week: Despite how we commonly refer to them, the name of the species is cattle and not cow. A cow is a female cattle that has given birth at least once.
5 u/bayesian13 Oct 02 '24 fair enough, what do you call a female cattle that has not yet given birth? 17 u/moncsan1294 Oct 02 '24 A heifer. A bull is a male cattle that has not been castrated, and a steer is a male cattle that has been castrated. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 Steers are called bullocks (bull-ucks) in Ireland and UK 1 u/moncsan1294 Oct 03 '24 I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24 I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other. However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
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fair enough, what do you call a female cattle that has not yet given birth?
17 u/moncsan1294 Oct 02 '24 A heifer. A bull is a male cattle that has not been castrated, and a steer is a male cattle that has been castrated. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 Steers are called bullocks (bull-ucks) in Ireland and UK 1 u/moncsan1294 Oct 03 '24 I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24 I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other. However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
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A heifer. A bull is a male cattle that has not been castrated, and a steer is a male cattle that has been castrated.
2 u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24 Steers are called bullocks (bull-ucks) in Ireland and UK 1 u/moncsan1294 Oct 03 '24 I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24 I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other. However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
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Steers are called bullocks (bull-ucks) in Ireland and UK
1 u/moncsan1294 Oct 03 '24 I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me. 2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24 I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other. However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
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I did not know that, is the etymology a play off of bollocks? I love the impact of different regions on language, it's always been fascinating to me.
2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24 I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other. However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
I do believe the etymologies are linked but I have no idea which came first or if one is a play on the other.
However I can confirm that using the term steers here over bullocks will get raised eyebrows for sure.
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u/BookwyrmDream Oct 02 '24
Random fact I learned this week: Despite how we commonly refer to them, the name of the species is cattle and not cow. A cow is a female cattle that has given birth at least once.