veal

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Etymology

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From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (calf). Doublet of vitellus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /viːl/
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  • Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

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veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)

  1. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
    Synonym: (nonstandard) calfflesh
  2. (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Verb

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veal (third-person singular simple present veals, present participle vealing, simple past and past participle vealed)

  1. To raise a calf for meat production.
    • 1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:
      The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.
    • 1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home:
      It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.

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Noun

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veal

  1. adessive singular of viga