mulley cow

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A name used for a cow chiefly among children, or by parents when speaking to children; as, 'the old mulley cow.' Provincial in England.


In travelling homeward, buy forty good crones,

And fat up the bodies of those seely bones:

Leave milking, and dry up old mulley thy cow;

The crooked and aged to fatting put now.--Tusser, Husbandry.

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