Definitions for calf

calf calf

Spelling: [kaf, kahf]
IPA: /kæf, kɑf/

Calf is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in calf (acfl).

Definitions for calf

noun

  1. the young of the domestic cow or other bovine animal.
  2. the young of certain other mammals, as the elephant, seal, and whale.
  3. calfskin leather.
  4. Informal. an awkward, silly boy or man.
  5. a mass of ice detached from a glacier, iceberg, or floe.
  6. the fleshy part of the back of the human leg below the knee.

Idioms

  1. in calf, (of a cow or other animal having calves) pregnant.
  2. kill the fatted calf, to prepare an elaborate feast in welcome or celebration.

Origin of calf

before 900; Middle English; Old English cealf, calf; cognate with Old Saxon kalf, Old Norse kalfr, Old High German kalb

Examples for calf

But the calf has in its upper jaw some rudiments of teeth which never are developed, and never play the part of teeth at all.

One of our cows had just had a calf, and everybody was excited.

Her dour father is clad in plaid shorts and black dress socks pulled up snugly along the calf.

He commanded the brigade in the 2008 war with Russia that suffered the most casualties and he himself was shot in the calf.

"The Koerting; so it is," said the Baron, when shown the X-ray photograph of his calf.

“Good, number 15 – she and her calf are still in the same place,” he said.

It had got chopped off by some accident when she was a calf.

He remembers being able to wrap his thumb and middle finger around her calf.

Also with knuckle of veal, and with calf's head boiled plain.

At her side was her calf, which turned and squinted at us through baby eyes.

Word Value for calf
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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