udder
pronunciation
How to pronounce udder in British English:
UK [ˈʌdə(r)]
How to pronounce udder in American English:
US [ˈʌdɚ]
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- Noun:
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
Word Origin
- udder
- udder: [OE] Udder goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *ūdhr-. This, or variants of it, produced the word for ‘udder’ in the majority of Indo-European languages: Greek oúthar, Latin ūber (source of English exuberant), Sanskrit údhar, Russian vymja, German euter, Dutch uier, Swedish juver, and Danish yver for instance, as well as English udder.=> exuberant
- udder (n.)
- Old English udder "milk gland of a cow, goat, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *udr- (cognates: Old Frisian uder, Middle Dutch uyder, Dutch uijer, Old High German utar, German Euter, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse jugr), from PIE *eue-dh-r "udder" (cognates: Sanskrit udhar, Greek outhar, Latin uber "udder, breast").
Example
- 1. He always seems to get the udder hand in an argument .
- 2. Brief study on legal levels of national macro-control udder conditions of market econmy .
- 3. She was not the result of mating between a ewe and a ram but was cloned from a single cell taken from the udder of a six-year-old ewe .
- 4. Mr schwarzenegger , affecting insouciance as he smoked his trademark stogies , got his team to prepare a mocking youtube video with footage of a committee hearing about whether cutting cow tails for udder hygiene was inhumane .