udder

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  1. noun A baglike organ containing the mammary glands, characteristic of certain female mammals, such as cows, sheep, and goats.

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  • To purloin milk from the udder was to injure the maternal affections of the cow; to eat eggs was Feejee cannibalism and the destruction of the tender germ of life, to swallow an oyster was to mask murder. —  Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
  • Or as that imaginary saying goes, "Milk while the udder is full." —  PhilMusic.com
  • Typically, in the immediate 2 weeks preceding calving, swelling of the vulva becomes more evident, the udder is filling, and one of the things that might be seen is the loss of the cervical plug. —  CattleNetwork
  • "In addition to improving milk flow from the udder, the vent positioning also reduces milk turbulence in the liner and black flow from the claw." —  FWi - All News
  • That milk fresh from the udder was the best. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ūder; see euə-dh-r̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *udder, uddyr, iddyr, from Anglo-Saxon ūder (ūdr-) = OFries. ūder = Middle Dutch uyder, uder, later uider, uir, Dutch uijer = Old High German ūtar, Middle High German iuter, ūter, German euter = Icelandic jūgr (for *jūdr) = Swedish jufver, jur (later English dial. yure) = Danish yver = Gaelic lr. uth = Latin uber (for *udher) = Greek οὐθαρ (οὐθατ-), Æolic οὐφαρ = Sanskrit ūdhar, ūdhan, udder: root unknown. Cf. uberous, exuberant, etc.
 

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