veal

Etymology

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

noun

  1. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
  2. (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.

verb

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

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