bum calf

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bum calf

noun bum calves

A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt. At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.
Similar: bummer, dogie, leppy

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@misc{bum_calf_2026,
  title = {bum calf},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bum%20calf},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}