bullamacow

English

Noun

bullamacow (countable and uncountable, plural bullamacows)

1. (countable, Pacific islands) A bull or cow; cattle.
   • 1932, The Mid-Pacific Magazine, volume 43, page 148:

     […] bulls, cows and steers were everywhere lumped indiscriminately under the certainly inclusive term "bullamacow," though if they especially wanted to indicate a cow they spoke of a "bullamacow mary."

   • 1984, The Solomon Islands Law Reports, page 55:

     A bullamacow belonging to the defendants escaped from their land […]

2. (uncountable, slang) Tinned beef.
   • 1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark:

     […] 4 bag rice, 24 tin bullamacow.