> > Mark J, Read wrote:
> > On an only-vaguely-related note, what's the sex-neutral term in
> > English for a "bull"/"cow"/bovine thingy? I read somewhere once
> > that "ox" used to fill that role before being co-opted to refer to a
> > different subcategory of the same species. What's the singular of
> > "cattle"?
> David McCann <david@...> wrote:
> Neat. It's mostly dialect these days -- they call a cowshed a
> neathouse on the Suffolk-Norfolk border -- but neat's-foot oil and
> neat's tongue are generally known. But you're right about "ox"
> originally being usable in that sense; indeed, it still is, though
> mostly in compounds like ox-tongue, ox-hide, ox-pecker.
There's also neatherd, i.e., a cowherd.
Charlie