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stirks

stirks is the plural of stirk.

Meaning of stirk

Noun

stirk (plural stirks)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dated, dialectal) A yearling cow; a young bullock or heifer.
    • But beware of MacPhadraick, my son; for when he called himself the friend of your father, he better loved the most worthless stirk in his herd, than he did the life-blood of MacTavish Mhor.1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I (The Highland Widow), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page...

Questions about stirks

What is stirks the plural of?
Stirks is the plural of stirk.

Words near stirks in the dictionary

  1. stiria
  2. stiriated
  3. stirious
  4. stiripentol
  5. stirk
  6. stirks
  7. stirless
  8. stirlessly
  9. stirlessness
  10. Stirling
  11. Stirling City

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