英语词汇“bobby calf”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bobby calf

/ˈbɒbi

noun

An unweaned calf slaughtered for veal.It has strongly opposed the use of the tags on bobby calves going to slaughter from this time....

In return the sharemilker receives 29% of the farm's milk income and a half share of bobby calf income.
The current closure of the slaughter house has meant that the number of bobby calves is building up on farms.

Origin

1920s: perhaps from bob², bobby calf being one of a number of collocations where bobby has the sense 'small, short'. Compare with the dialect term staggering bob for a very young calf or its meat, recorded from the late 18th century, perhaps from the pet form of Robert.

单词	bobby calf
释义	bobby calf /ˈbɒbi / noun An unweaned calf slaughtered for veal.It has strongly opposed the use of the tags on bobby calves going to slaughter from this time.... In return the sharemilker receives 29% of the farm's milk income and a half share of bobby calf income. The current closure of the slaughter house has meant that the number of bobby calves is building up on farms. Origin 1920s: perhaps from bob², bobby calf being one of a number of collocations where bobby has the sense 'small, short'. Compare with the dialect term staggering bob for a very young calf or its meat, recorded from the late 18th century, perhaps from the pet form of Robert.
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