wet-un

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Noun

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wet-un (plural wet-uns)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A diseased cow, unfit for human food, but nevertheless sold to make into sausages etc.
    • 1849, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 19, page 142:
      The sick animals are divided into three classes — "choppers, rough-uns, and wet-uns."

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References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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