Heifer vs Coq - What's the difference?
heifer | coq |
(label) A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
* 1611 , KJV, Numbers 19:1-2
(label) A wife.
*1616 , Ben Jonson, Epicœne'', Ch. ii., in ''Works , Vol. I, p. 549:
A girl.
* 1853 , T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws , Vol. II., p. 282:
A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
* 2001 , Glenda Howard, Cita's World
A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
* 1897 , Ladies' home journal: Volume 15
* 1921 , Millinery trade review: Volume 46
* 2010 , Deborah Davis, Party of the Century
As a noun heifer
is (label) a young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.As a proper noun coq is
coquihalla.heifer
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, heiferbud, heifer-bud , heifer calf , heifer dust , heiferhood , heifer paddock, heifer-paddock , heifer yearling , plow with one's heifer, plough with one's heifer}}coq
English
Noun
(en noun)- with a flat Tarn crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
- A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
- It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq' feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. ' Coqs , the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.