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shorthorn|ˈʃɔːthɔːn|
[f. short a. + horn n.]
1. a. One of a breed of cattle having short horns, originally bred in the north-eastern counties of England and now widely distributed over Great Britain and exported to other countries.
[1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 376 A Sockburn Short⁓horns from Grassy-hook which should put the best bull of Basan out of the field.] 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 61/2 They have succumbed before the superiority of the short⁓horns. 1911B. Holland Life Duke Devonshire I. ix. 213 A famous breed of shorthorns.
b. attrib.
1862Burton Bk. Hunter i. 24 The pedigrees and physical characteristics recorded in stud-books and short-horn books. 1877Field 17 Feb. 191/2 A society similar to the Shorthorn Society. 1909Carlisle Jrnl. 27 Apr. 3/4 The splendid selection of shorthorn stirks.
2. A small round carrot belonging to the variety so called. Also attrib.
1873Young Englishwoman Oct. 499/1 There are several sorts of carrots: the earliest of which are generally termed short-horn. 1885W. Robinson tr. Vilmorin-Andrieux's Veg. Garden 162 French Horn, or Early Short Horn, Carrot... Root almost globular, or slightly top-shaped. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Apr. (Home & Classroom Suppl.) p. iv/3 Attend to the successional sowing of such crops as peas, spinach,..short-horn carrots, and lettuces. 1976Publishers Weekly 19 Apr. 77/1 Such virtually unknown and unavailable items as perennial broccoli and short horn carrots.
3. U.S. slang. A new arrival, a greenhorn.
1888Outing Nov. 129/2 Besides a few snipe killed at a swamp called by Shorthorns ‘cineky’, from the Spanish sienica, we still depended upon Uncle Sam's subsistence stores for our daily bread. 1905A. H. Lewis Sunset Trail ii. 34 Don't let no shorthorn have my room. 1907J. London Road 173 Gay-cats are short-horns, chechaquos, new chums, or tenderfeet. A gay-cat is a new-comer on The Road who is man-grown, or, at least, youth-grown. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §456/1 Inexperienced person;..shorthorn. |