beefer
A cow used for beef and not milk.
Noun
- A cow used for beef and not milk.
- We usually reckon if a cow does not respond to good food at the pail, that she is "putting it on her back"; that is, she fattens, and is thus more of a beefer than a milker, and should not be retained for milking...
- A police informer.
- A person with a beefy build.
- "I'll bet. Well, is she? Fat, I mean." "Yeah. They ^([sic]) gal's a real beefer." - 2010, Vincenzo Spiaggi, A Tribute to His Heroes, page 325:
Origin
From beef + -er.