bullamacow

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noun

A bull or cow; cattle.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbullamacow (countable and uncountable, plural bullamacows)

plural bullamacows

  1. countablePacific islandsA bull or cow; cattle.

    A bullamacow belonging to the defendants escaped from their land […]

    1984, The Solomon Islands Law Reports, page 55
    1 more example

    […] bulls, cows and steers were everywhere lumped indiscriminately under the certainly inclusive term "bullamacow," though if they especially wanted to indicate a cow they spoke of a "bullamacow mary."

    1932, The Mid-Pacific Magazine, volume 43, page 148
  2. slanguncountableTinned beef.

    […] 4 bag rice, 24 tin bullamacow.

    1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark
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