How do you pronounce veal?

The recorded pronunciation is /viːl/.

Where does veal come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

veal

/viːl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: veal
IPA: /viːl/

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Meaning

noun

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The female genitalia.

Countable; Slang; Uncountable

verb

To raise a calf for meat production.

name

A surname.

Example Sentences

"The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf."
"It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body."

Etymology

From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: veel, vitellus

Usage

Inflected Forms

veals (plural) veale (alternative, obsolete) veel (alternative, obsolete) veals (present, singular) vealing (participle, present) vealed (participle, past) vealed (past)

Derived Forms

vealburger vealer veallike vealskin vealy

Phrases

bod veal rose veal try the veal veal crate veal Milanese veal Orloff veal Orlov veal-skin

Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

calfflesh calfmeat veau

Rhymes With

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