bullamacow
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bullamacow (countable and uncountable, plural bullamacows)
- (countable, Pacific islands) A bull or cow; cattle.
- 1932, The Mid-Pacific Magazine (volume 43, page 148)
- […] 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."
- 1984, The Solomon Islands Law Reports (page 55)
- A bullamacow belonging to the defendants escaped from their land […]
- 1932, The Mid-Pacific Magazine (volume 43, page 148)
- (uncountable, slang) Tinned beef.
- 1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark
- […] 4 bag rice, 24 tin bullamacow.
- 1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark