bum calf

Definitions

1. 1

   A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned

   A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt.

   • At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.
   • I could do it all — I could play their game until I dropped — but I would never own a square foot of land, a bushel of oats or a bum calf in my own name.
   • She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.

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