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stirk.

A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.

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Meaning & usage

noun/stɜːk/Received-Pronunciation/stɝk/General-American[stɪrk]Scotland
  1. A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.

    Scotland · UK · dated · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English stirk, sterke, styrke, from Old English stīrc, stȳrc, stȳric, stīorc (“calf, a stirk, a young bullock or a heifer”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiurik, from Proto-Germanic *stiurikaz (“bullock”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *steuraz (“steer”), equivalent to steer + -ock. Cognate with Middle Low German sterke (“stirk”), Middle Dutch stierick ("stirk"; compare Modern Dutch sterke (“young cow”)), German Sterk, Stärke, Stark (“stirk”). More at steer.

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