heifern.

Brit.

/ˈhɛfə/, U.S.

/ˈhɛfər/

Forms: α. Old English heahfore, heafor, heahfru, Middle English hayfre, (? heyffer), Middle English heyfre, hayfare, ( hawgher), Middle English–1500s heyghfer, 1500s heighfer, hayfer, hayfarre, heyffer, heyfar, haifer, haifir, hafir, 1500s–1700s heyfer, (Middle English yhefre), 1600s heifar, 1500s– heifer. β. Middle English hekfore, hekfere, hekefeer, hefker, 1500s heffeker, effker, hec(k)fare, hec(k)forde, hec(k)forthe, hec(k)furthe, hek-, heke-, heckefar, 1600s heckfer, heicfar, 1800s dialect heifker. γ. Middle English heffre, 1500s heffour, effer, heffarth, hefforth.

Etymology: Old English heahfore (probably héahfore), heahfru, -fre, of obscure etymology; not found outside English. As to the form, héahfore might perhaps mean ‘high-farer’, i.e. high-goer or high-stepper (-fŏre unstressed form of -fare, feminine of -fara, < faran to fare, go). But the applicability of such a name is not apparent; and the form héahfru, -fre, remains without satisfactory explanation. The difficulties of form and sense are increased by connecting, as some suggest, -fare, -fru, with Old English fearr, Old High German far(r, farro bull.

a. A young cow, spec. one that is over one year of age but has not yet calved (or, in some areas, that has not calved more than once).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer

cow-calfa800

heiferc900

quey1301

queyock1411

genice1480

quey calfa1500

mull1655

stot1677

α.

c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iv. 272 In Scyttisc genemned Inisbofinde, þæt is ealond hwitre heahfore.

c1000 Ælfric Leviticus iii. 1 Bringe unwemme fear oþþe heafre.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 120/29 Annicula, uel vaccula, heahfore.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 120/35 Altilium, fæt heahfore.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 274/20 Antile, heahfru.

a1327 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 239 With lowe lacede shon Of an hayfre hude.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. IV. 451 An hoyffer [? heyffer; v.rr. heyfre, heffre]..enyed a lomb [L. vitula agnum peperit].

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 624/14 Hayfare, iuuenca.

1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 85 It. of J. Meke vor a yhefyr..iij s.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 9 Flessh of moton or of lambe Of an hawgher or of a calfe.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. ix. 13 The asshes off an heyfer.

1547 Will of John Plume (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/31) f. 314 A blake bulloke otherwyse called a Hayfer.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 4 Shiepe, heyghfers, and such other of bothe kindes.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Deut. xxi. 4 Let the Elders of that citie bring the heifer vnto a stonie valley.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 129^v Oxen, Kine, and Hayfarres.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. i. ii. 2 For the steere and heighfer.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Four fair Heifars yet in Yoke untry'd.

1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 232 Two steers, or heifers, may be kept and fatted in the place of one cow.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 121 The Greek philosophers sat on their stools chewing the facts in much the same fashion as heifers chew their grass.

β. 1407 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 212 De debili vitulo cujusdam hekfore vendito.c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 41 A yonge hefker alone leuyng, Lay yn thryssheholde.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 234/1 Hekfere, beeste..juvenca.1510 Will of John Parker (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/16) f. 293^v Yong nete callid Heffekers.1529 Acc. Metyngham Coll. (BL Add. 27404) For xx kien and for xx heckforthes.1570 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 156 One blacke heckforde of two yeares age.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ci^v/1 Heckfare, bucula.1573 Will of Robert Gibson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/55) f. 84 To Mary Pye, one heck~furthe.1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxx Take a young Hekfar from the droue.1606 in A. R. Maddison Lincs. Wills, 1600–1617 (1891) 23 To my sister Harrington one Heckfer.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Heifker, a heifer. This is the pronunciation of the word, whatever may be its orthography.γ. 1387Heffre [see α. ]. 1525 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 210 A heffour in calf.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Yonge Yonge cowe or heffarth, iunix.

b. to plough with one's heifer: derived from the story of Samson (Judges xiv. 18).

c. figurative. Wife.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife

wifeeOE

womanc1275

peerc1330

spousessc1384

ladyc1390

good lady1502

girl?a1513

spousage1513

little lady1523

the weaker vessel1526

companion1535

wedlock1566

Mrs1572

dame1574

rib?1590

feme1595

fathom1602

feme covert1602

shrew1606

wife of one's bosom1611

kickie-wickiea1616

heifer1616

sposa1624

bosom-partner1633

goodwife1654

little woman1715

squaw1767

the Mrs1821

missus1823

maw1826

lady wife1840

tart1864

mistress1873

mama1916

ball and chain1921

trouble and strife1929

old boot1958

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. v, in Wks. I. 549 Her, whom I shall choose for my heicfar .

d. A woman, a girl. depreciative slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

wifeeOE

womaneOE

womanOE

queanOE

brideOE

viragoc1000

to wifeOE

burdc1225

ladyc1225

carlinec1375

stotc1386

marec1387

pigsneyc1390

fellowa1393

piecec1400

femalea1425

goddessa1450

fairc1450

womankindc1450

fellowessa1500

femininea1513

tega1529

sister?1532

minikinc1540

wyec1540

placket1547

pig's eye1553

hen?1555

ware1558

pussy?a1560

jade1560

feme1566

gentlewoman1567

mort1567

pinnacea1568

jug1569

rowen1575

tarleather1575

mumps1576

skirt1578

piga1586

rib?1590

puppy1592

smock1592

maness1594

sloy1596

Madonna1602

moll1604

periwinkle1604

Partlet1607

rib of man1609

womanship?1609

modicum1611

Gypsy1612

petticoata1616

runniona1616

birda1627

lucky1629

she-man1640

her1646

lost rib1647

uptails1671

cow1696

tittup1696

cummer17..

wife1702

she-woman1703

person1704

molly1706

fusby1707

goody1708

riding hood1718

birdie1720

faggot1722

piece of goods1727

woman body1771

she-male1776

biddy1785

bitch1785

covess1789

gin1790

pintail1792

buer1807

femme1814

bibi1816

Judy1819

a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823

wifie1823

craft1829

shickster?1834

heifer1835

mot1837

tit1837

Sitt1838

strap1842

hay-bag1851

bint1855

popsy1855

tart1864

woman's woman1868

to deliver the goods1870

chapess1871

Dona1874

girl1878

ladykind1878

mivvy1881

dudess1883

dudette1883

dudine1883

tid1888

totty1890

tootsy1895

floozy1899

dame1902

jane1906

Tom1906

frail1908

bit of stuff1909

quim1909

babe1911

broad1914

muff1914

manhole1916

number1919

rossie1922

bit1923

man's woman1928

scupper1935

split1935

rye mort1936

totsy1938

leg1939

skinny1941

Richard1950

potato1957

scow1960

wimmin1975

womyn1975

womxn1991

1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 143 He rushed into the Kitchen in a fury. ‘You infernal heifer!’ said he to Aunt Clory.

1853 T. C. Haliburton Sam Slick's Wise Saws II. xii. 282 I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them.

1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 115 Charwomen were satirically known as heifers at Charterhouse.

1964 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 201 Was that heifer of Blackie's the same one he had a fortnight ago?

1973 Black World Jan. 62/2 That heifer that been trying to get next to my man Lucky since the year one.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

heifer calf n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its first year

heifer-bud1507

heifer calf1865

1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern vii. 140 The brothers only sell a few heifer calves.

heifer yearling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its second year

burling1503

heifer yearling1865

1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern vii. 133 Deacon Milne bought the heifer yearling.

C2.

† heifer-bud n. Obsolete a weaned she-calf of the first year.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its first year

heifer-bud1507

heifer calf1865

1507 Will of John Walter (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 263^v Juvencas voc. heffer~buddes.

heifer dust n. slang (a) nonsense (see also quot. 1927²); (b) (see quot. 1945).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1927 ‘J. Barbican’ Confessions Rum-runner xxiii. 256 Even if they do get pinched, they always have some heifer dust ready about laying a trap for a ship.

1927 Dial. Notes 5 449 Heifer dust act, the, an arrest and cross-questioning by the police.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 35 Heifer dust, nonsense.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 123 Other Australianisms for girls or young women include:..a bit of heifer dust.

heifer-paddock n. Australian slang a girls' school.

ΚΠ

1885 R. C. Praed Austral. Life ii. 50 Next year I shall look over a heifer-paddock in Sydney, and take my pick.

Derivatives

ˈheiferhood n. the state or age of a heifer.

ΚΠ

1886 All Year Round 14 Aug. 36 The cows never get a run after they have once grown out of heiferhood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	heifer
释义	heifern. Brit. /ˈhɛfə/, U.S. /ˈhɛfər/ Forms: α. Old English heahfore, heafor, heahfru, Middle English hayfre, (? heyffer), Middle English heyfre, hayfare, ( hawgher), Middle English–1500s heyghfer, 1500s heighfer, hayfer, hayfarre, heyffer, heyfar, haifer, haifir, hafir, 1500s–1700s heyfer, (Middle English yhefre), 1600s heifar, 1500s– heifer. β. Middle English hekfore, hekfere, hekefeer, hefker, 1500s heffeker, effker, hec(k)fare, hec(k)forde, hec(k)forthe, hec(k)furthe, hek-, heke-, heckefar, 1600s heckfer, heicfar, 1800s dialect heifker. γ. Middle English heffre, 1500s heffour, effer, heffarth, hefforth. Etymology: Old English heahfore (probably héahfore), heahfru, -fre, of obscure etymology; not found outside English. As to the form, héahfore might perhaps mean ‘high-farer’, i.e. high-goer or high-stepper (-fŏre unstressed form of -fare, feminine of -fara, < faran to fare, go). But the applicability of such a name is not apparent; and the form héahfru, -fre, remains without satisfactory explanation. The difficulties of form and sense are increased by connecting, as some suggest, -fare, -fru, with Old English fearr, Old High German far(r, farro bull. a. A young cow, spec. one that is over one year of age but has not yet calved (or, in some areas, that has not calved more than once). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer cow-calfa800 heiferc900 quey1301 queyock1411 genice1480 quey calfa1500 mull1655 stot1677 α. c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iv. 272 In Scyttisc genemned Inisbofinde, þæt is ealond hwitre heahfore. c1000 Ælfric Leviticus iii. 1 Bringe unwemme fear oþþe heafre. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 120/29 Annicula, uel vaccula, heahfore. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 120/35 Altilium, fæt heahfore. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 274/20 Antile, heahfru. a1327 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 239 With lowe lacede shon Of an hayfre hude. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. IV. 451 An hoyffer [? heyffer; v.rr. heyfre, heffre]..enyed a lomb [L. vitula agnum peperit]. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 624/14 Hayfare, iuuenca. 1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 85 It. of J. Meke vor a yhefyr..iij s. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 9 Flessh of moton or of lambe Of an hawgher or of a calfe. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. ix. 13 The asshes off an heyfer. 1547 Will of John Plume (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/31) f. 314 A blake bulloke otherwyse called a Hayfer. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 4 Shiepe, heyghfers, and such other of bothe kindes. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Deut. xxi. 4 Let the Elders of that citie bring the heifer vnto a stonie valley. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 129^v Oxen, Kine, and Hayfarres. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. i. ii. 2 For the steere and heighfer. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Four fair Heifars yet in Yoke untry'd. View more context for this quotation 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 232 Two steers, or heifers, may be kept and fatted in the place of one cow. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 121 The Greek philosophers sat on their stools chewing the facts in much the same fashion as heifers chew their grass. β. 1407 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 212 De debili vitulo cujusdam hekfore vendito.c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 41 A yonge hefker alone leuyng, Lay yn thryssheholde.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 234/1 Hekfere, beeste..juvenca.1510 Will of John Parker (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/16) f. 293^v Yong nete callid Heffekers.1529 Acc. Metyngham Coll. (BL Add. 27404) For xx kien and for xx heckforthes.1570 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 156 One blacke heckforde of two yeares age.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ci^v/1 Heckfare, bucula.1573 Will of Robert Gibson (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/55) f. 84 To Mary Pye, one heck~furthe.1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxx Take a young Hekfar from the droue.1606 in A. R. Maddison Lincs. Wills, 1600–1617 (1891) 23 To my sister Harrington one Heckfer.a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Heifker, a heifer. This is the pronunciation of the word, whatever may be its orthography.γ. 1387Heffre [see α. ]. 1525 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 210 A heffour in calf.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at Yonge Yonge cowe or heffarth, iunix. b. to plough with one's heifer: derived from the story of Samson (Judges xiv. 18). c. figurative. Wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife wifeeOE womanc1275 peerc1330 spousessc1384 ladyc1390 good lady1502 girl?a1513 spousage1513 little lady1523 the weaker vessel1526 companion1535 wedlock1566 Mrs1572 dame1574 rib?1590 feme1595 fathom1602 feme covert1602 shrew1606 wife of one's bosom1611 kickie-wickiea1616 heifer1616 sposa1624 bosom-partner1633 goodwife1654 little woman1715 squaw1767 the Mrs1821 missus1823 maw1826 lady wife1840 tart1864 mistress1873 mama1916 ball and chain1921 trouble and strife1929 old boot1958 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. v, in Wks. I. 549 Her, whom I shall choose for my heicfar . View more context for this quotation d. A woman, a girl. depreciative slang. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 143 He rushed into the Kitchen in a fury. ‘You infernal heifer!’ said he to Aunt Clory. 1853 T. C. Haliburton Sam Slick's Wise Saws II. xii. 282 I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 115 Charwomen were satirically known as heifers at Charterhouse. 1964 O. E. Middleton in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 201 Was that heifer of Blackie's the same one he had a fortnight ago? 1973 Black World Jan. 62/2 That heifer that been trying to get next to my man Lucky since the year one. Compounds C1. General attributive. heifer calf n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its first year heifer-bud1507 heifer calf1865 1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern vii. 140 The brothers only sell a few heifer calves. heifer yearling n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its second year burling1503 heifer yearling1865 1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern vii. 133 Deacon Milne bought the heifer yearling. C2. † heifer-bud n. Obsolete a weaned she-calf of the first year. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > young or heifer > in its first year heifer-bud1507 heifer calf1865 1507 Will of John Walter (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 263^v Juvencas voc. heffer~buddes. heifer dust n. slang (a) nonsense (see also quot. 1927²); (b) (see quot. 1945). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1927 ‘J. Barbican’ Confessions Rum-runner xxiii. 256 Even if they do get pinched, they always have some heifer dust ready about laying a trap for a ship. 1927 Dial. Notes 5 449 Heifer dust act, the, an arrest and cross-questioning by the police. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 35 Heifer dust, nonsense. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 123 Other Australianisms for girls or young women include:..a bit of heifer dust. heifer-paddock n. Australian slang a girls' school. ΚΠ 1885 R. C. Praed Austral. Life ii. 50 Next year I shall look over a heifer-paddock in Sydney, and take my pick. Derivatives ˈheiferhood n. the state or age of a heifer. ΚΠ 1886 All Year Round 14 Aug. 36 The cows never get a run after they have once grown out of heiferhood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c900
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