Calf vs Cauf - What's the difference?
calf | cauf |
A young cow or bull.
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
A young elephant, seal or whale (also used of some other animals).
A chunk of ice broken off of a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
A small island, near a larger island.
A cabless railroad engine.
(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
* Drayton
(anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
* 1988 , Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", , 47 (6): 28-34.
A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
* 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2,
''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
* 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day ,
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----
As nouns the difference between calf and cauf
is that calf is a young cow or bull or calf can be (anatomy) the back of the leg below the knee while cauf is a chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water or cauf can be .calf
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cealf, from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- (Kane)
- the Calf of Man
- some silly, doting, brainless calf
Synonyms
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* cow * vealEtymology 2
(etyl) kalfi, possibly derived from the same Germanic root as ().Noun
(en-noun)- Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high.
cauf
English
Etymology 1
Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)Noun
(cauves)unknown page(Executive Committee)
- The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
References
* Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue'', by (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
†cauf]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Phonetic respelling.Noun
(cauves)pages 40–41
- An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves , six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
References
* Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886),page 26]
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----