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calfflesh

noun

Etymology

From Middle English calfflesch, equivalent to calf + flesh. Compare Dutch kalfsvlees (“veal”), German Kalbfleisch (“veal”).

  1. inherited from calfflesch

Definitions

  1. The meat or flesh of a calf

    The meat or flesh of a calf; veal.

    • […] and also very often eat man beefsteaks or calfflesh. [Note: This text is deliberately imitating a non-native speaker of English for comic effect.]
    • Calf flesh possesses a distinctive odour. While it is, by some manufacturers, largely substituted for chicken in the manufacture of ham, chicken, and tongue, other substitutions for veal are rarely practised [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for calfflesh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA