Udder

//ˈʌdə// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.

    "squeeze the udder to get milk"

  2. 2
    mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) wordnet
  3. 3
    A woman's breast. impolite, slang

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"Yanni cleaned his goat's udder."

Etymology

From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Latin ūber.

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