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plow with one's heifer

plow with one's heifer verb: to have an affair with another man's wife or to deal with the wife in order to obtain something from her husband.

Verb

plow with one's heifer (third-person singular simple present plows with one's heifer, present participle plowing with one's heifer, simple past and past participle plowed with one's heifer)

  1. (dated, idiomatic, informal) To have an affair with another man's wife or to deal with the wife in order to obtain something from her husband.

Forms of plow with one's heifer

third-person singular presentplows with one's heifer
present participleplowing with one's heifer
past participleplowed with one's heifer
pastplowed with one's heifer
alternative formplough with one's heifer

Origin of plow with one's heifer

Biblical.

Questions about plow with one's heifer

What does plow with one's heifer mean?
Plow with one's heifer means to have an affair with another man's wife or to deal with the wife in order to obtain something from her husband.
What part of speech is plow with one's heifer?
Plow with one's heifer is a verb.
What is the past tense of plow with one's heifer?
The past tense of plow with one's heifer is plowed with one's heifer.

Words near plow with one's heifer in the dictionary

  1. plow stops
  2. plow the sands
  3. plow through
  4. plow under
  5. plow up
  6. plow with one's heifer
  7. plowable
  8. ploward
  9. plowback
  10. plowbacks
  11. plowbeam

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