killcalf

See also: kill-calf

English

Etymology

kill +‎ calf

Noun

killcalf

(obsolete) A butcher.
- 1628, Clavell, John, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life‎, page 35:
  With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know.
- 1630, Taylor, John, “Jack A Lent: His Beginning and Entertainment”, in Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet‎, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1876, pages 12–13:
  Sir Francis Drake's ship at Deptford, my Lord Mayor's barge, and divers secret and unsuspected places, and there they make private shambles with kill-calf cruelty, and sheep slaughtering murder, to the abuse of Lent, the deceiving of the informers, and the great grief of every zealous fishmonger.
(obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.

Related terms

killbuck, killcow

References

Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, page 106

单词	killcalf
释义	killcalf See also: kill-calf English Etymology kill +‎ calf Noun killcalf (obsolete) A butcher. 1628, Clavell, John, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life‎, page 35: With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know. 1630, Taylor, John, “Jack A Lent: His Beginning and Entertainment”, in Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet‎, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1876, pages 12–13: Sir Francis Drake's ship at Deptford, my Lord Mayor's barge, and divers secret and unsuspected places, and there they make private shambles with kill-calf cruelty, and sheep slaughtering murder, to the abuse of Lent, the deceiving of the informers, and the great grief of every zealous fishmonger. (obsolete, figuratively) A violent person. Related terms killbuck, killcow References Farmer, John Stephen (1896) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 4, page 106
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