stirk
English
Etymology
From Middle English stirk, sterke, styrke, from Old English stīrc, stȳrc, stȳric, stīorc (“calf, a stirk, a young bullock or a heifer”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *stiurikaz (“bullock”), diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *steuraz (“steer”), equivalent to steer + -ock. Cognate with Middle Low German sterke (“stirk”), Middle Dutch stierick (“stirk”), German Sterk, Stärke, Stark (“stirk”). More at steer.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)k
Noun
stirk (plural stirks)
- (UK, Scotland, dialect, dated) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 20:
- he could stop a running stirk by the horns, so strong he was in the wrist-bones.
- Sir Walter Scott
- But beware of MacPhadraick, my son; for when he called himself the friend of your father, he better loved the most worthless stirk in his herd, than he did the life-blood of MacTavish Mhor.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 20:
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