Cattle vs Bulldust - What's the difference?
cattle | bulldust |
Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
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(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
* {{quote-book, 1961, Gerald Hanley, The Journey Homeward, page=155
, passage="I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle ," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.}}
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* {{quote-book, 1552, Parliament of England, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments
, passage=That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.}}
* {{quote-book, 1684, , Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, year_published=1856
, passage=1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased,
(uncountable, rare)
* , The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847 , Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:
* Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships , Grove Press (1994), ISBN 978-0-8021-3388-5,
* 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, "
* 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "
(Australia) Fine red dust, found in desert regions of Australia.
* 2007 , , Joy McKean, Another Day, Another Town ,
* 2007 , Dick Eussen, Australia's Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome ,
* 2011 , Leon Isackson, Jon Hayton, Behind the Rock and Beyond ,
(Australia, slang) Nonsense; blatantly false statements.
* 1991 , Antonio Casella, The Sensualist ,
* 1993 , , Arnold Rampersad, Days of Grace: A Memoir ,
* 2008 , Catherine Deveny, Say When ,
As nouns the difference between cattle and bulldust
is that cattle is domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc) while bulldust is (australia) fine red dust, found in desert regions of australia.cattle
English
(wikipedia cattle)Noun
(usually used as plural)- Do you want to raise cattle ?
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- goods and cattle
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- The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall -natives, and sheep-fat and cattle -steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.
page 137:
- “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.
- “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet :
- Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.
Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
- Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!
Usage notes
There is no singular form for "cattle", and the words for the particular types of cattle are used: "bull", "calf" etc. * There are five cows''' and a '''calf''' in that herd of '''cattle . Where the type is unknown, "cow" is often used (although properly a cow is only an adult female). * Is that a cow in the road? When used as an uncountable noun, the phrase "head of cattle" is used for countable quantities of cattle. * He sold 50 head of cattle last year. However, "cattle" is often used as an ordinary plural rather than as as an uncountable noun. * I have fifteen cattle . In some circumstances the uncountable form is not used. * How many cattle'''?'' (not ''how much '''cattle ? ).Quotations
* (English Citations of "cattle")Synonyms
* (domesticated bovine animals) , Bos (scientific) * (people who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny) sheeple (pejorative)Derived terms
* all hat and no cattle * Australian Cattle Dog * cattlebeast * cattle call * cattle car * cattle catcher * cattle grid * cattle guard * cattleman * cattle prod * cattle-rearing * cattle truck * cattlewoman * Texas cattle feverSee also
(Other entries associated with cattle) * Angus * bull * Bos taurus * bovine * calf * cow * herd * ox * steerAnagrams
* English pluralia tantumbulldust
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Noun
(-)page 151,
- Bulldust' is like talcum powder and it covers the holes in the road. No matter how carefully we drove, the ' bulldust rose in the air and cascaded down over our vehicle to the extent that we sometimes used the wipers to clear the windscreen.
page 23,
- Road trains are over 50 m long when towing three trailers. On dirt roads, they trail a blinding cloud of bulldust and window smashing, fist-size stones.
unnumbered page,
- The bulldust was starting to get really thick now and even thicker in the back of the Hudson! It got into everything.
page 10,
- She was told some bulldust'. The same ' bulldust they tell any dickhead willing to part with money: that she'd be rich one day and live to a ripe old age.
page 70,
- “Your theory is bulldust', Arthur,” said Pancho. “Nothing but ' bulldust . You should play your best doubles players even if they are playing singles. If they are fit, they are not going to be too tired. McEnroe would not have lost that match.”
page 181,
- In these harsh times of economic rationalism (sacking), restructuring (sacking) and merit-assessed and incentive-based liquidation and redirecting of human resources (sacking), the bulldust detector is invaluable.