单词 | udder |
释义 | uddern. 1. a. The pendulous baggy organ, provided with two or more teats or nipples, by which the milk is secreted in certain female animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder uddera1000 yure1483 dug1530 bag1579 ewer1787 a1000 Kentish Gl. 203 Uberibus, of udrum. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. xviii Þe Camel haþ foure tettes and tweyne vddres as þe cowe haþ. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 12 Wolle þat groweth atuix þe leggez of ane ewe about þe vdder. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 258/2 Iddyr, or vddyr of a beeste, Uber. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Avv Leane be my lambes,..And yet their dammes, they dayly souke so drie That from their vthers, no lycour can we wring. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Aiv Your cowes vthers of mylke replete and full. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiv I sawe a fox sucke on a kowes ydder And with a lyme rodde I toke them bothe togyder. c1534 in P. D. Mundy Star Chamber Proc. (1913) 21 The..Kyn were in suche payn for lake of mylkyng that the mylke rane oute of there odderens and so lyke to be all perishte. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 139v The Lambe..must be set on foote, and put to the dammes vdder. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xi. 349 Next to the doore on the womens side..there is an Image with a Cowes Vdder for the women,..on the other side another with a Mares Vdder for the men. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. iii. sig. Aa8v I..approach'd the place where the fair Milk-maid was solliciting the Udder of a fresh Cow. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1910/4 A Red Cow of about 5 or 6 years old, with a White Udder. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. ii. 21 The Udder is another Part peculiar to the Mare. 1773 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 47 Milk pressed from the swelling udder by the gentle hand of the beauteous milk-maid. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 314 A spurious cow-pox..arising from pustules on the nipples or udder of the cow. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 41/1 A twin heifer..which..was very handsome, with a well-formed udder, and was a good milker. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) v. 75 The distended udders of thousands of camels were an assurance of plenty. b. This part of an animal as an article of food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > udder udder1474 1474 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) *32 The purveyors of beeves and muttons..hath to theire fees the oxe heads, muttons heades, the rumpes of every beefe, and the intrayles of every beaste excepte the oxe feete, and the uthers. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario J iiij Fifteene Egs, with a Cowes Udder wel sodden. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 11 Oct. (1970) I. 263 Mr. Creed and I to the Leg in King-street.., where he and I and my Will had a good udder to dinner. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 158/1 Neats-tongue and Udder roasted. 1721 Queen's Closet 99 To Roast a Cows Udder. 1836 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion i. ii. 32 Four pounds of cow's udder and ten pounds of raw beef. 2. poetic (in plural). A dug or teat. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > udder > teat titOE mammaOE teat?a1200 udder1582 drain1587 papilla1684 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 32 Theyre whelps neere starued ar eager And expect vdders with dry iaws. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 115 Vnder which bushes shade A Lyonnesse, with vdders all drawne drie, Lay cowching head on ground. View more context for this quotation 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 17 Twice each day she is milked; though still at her udders we leave Two young calves. 3. The breast of a woman. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 1702 T. Brown Select Epist. Cicero 282 Their Udders swagging down to their Navils. 1933 D. Thomas Let. Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 53 Farmers' boys pressed amorously upon the udders of their dairymaids. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as udder-cattle, udder-flank, udder part; udder-clap n. inflammation in the udder. udder-ill n. (see quot. 1847). udder-lock n. and v. (a) n. (see quot. a1808); (b) v. transitive, to pull away the wool from the udders of (sheep). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > female > wool plucked from udder udder-locka1808 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > disorders of udder udder-clap1825 udder-ill1847 gargil1886 whetstone1887 quarter evil1897 summer mastitis1929 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 214 The oak-buds killed five of the udder-cattle. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 345 It was the udder-flank, or throat, that they usually bit the sheep in. 1798 R. Douglas Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh & Selkirk 156 (note) All sheep are udder-locked, as it is here called, that being thought refreshing and salutary. 1806 ‘Ignotus’ Culina (ed. 3) 256 Under the udder part of a leg of veal, there is a large piece of meat. a1808 Essays Highl. Soc. III. 250 (Jam.) Udderlocks are the wool plucked from the udder. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Udder-clap, a sort of schirrous tumour affecting the udder of ewes, by an unexpected return of milk after being sometime eild. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 620 After recovery from lambing, the only complaint the ewe is subject to is inflammation in the udder, or udder-clap, or garget. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 172/2 Loss of milk, or milk of a disgusting taste and odour, and consequently unfit for use, results from derangement of the digestive organs, and especially from morbid affections of the fourth stomach, and the animal is said to labour under ‘udder-ill’. Derivatives ˈudderful adj. and n. (a) adj. having a full udder; (b) n. as much (milk) as an udder will hold. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills an udder udderful1879 1879 G. Meredith Egoist Prelude Listen..to an unleavened society: a low as of the udderful cow past milking hour! 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 403 Drink, man, an udderful! ˈudderless adj. unsuckled, motherless. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [adjective] > of lambs: unsuckled or motherless udderless1818 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of or like a lamb > unsuckled or hand-reared pet1584 udderless1818 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 13 All ye gentle girls who foster up Udderless lambs. 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