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oxe.

an ox (adult castrated male of cattle, typically used as a beast of burden)

3 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. an ox (adult castrated male of cattle, typically used as a beast of burden)

    common-gender

  2. beef (meat from cattle, male and female – chiefly as a dish and in the names of some cuts of beef)

    common-gender
    oxfilé
    oxpytt

  3. a bull (of cattle, reindeer, or moose)

    common-gender
    älgoxe

  4. a bovine (member of the subfamily Bovinae)

    common-gender · in-compounds
    bisonoxe
    oxdjur

  5. Taurus

    common-gender

  6. Taurus

    common-gender

  7. Taurus a Taurus (person born under the Taurus astrological sign)

    common-gender
    Han är oxe
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish oxe, from Old Norse oxi, uxi, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“bull”).

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