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calf
calf is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
- 2noun
Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
- 3noun
An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
- 4noun
A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
- 5noun
A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
- 6noun
The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
- 7noun
young of domestic cattle
- 8noun
young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- 9noun
the muscular back part of the shank
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- 10noun
fine leather from the skin of a calf
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