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CALF

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calf¹, plural calves substantiv

1. viţel; (despre vacă)

in / with calf gestantă;

(bibl. fig.) to kill the fatted calf a (în)junghia / a tăia viţelul cel gras; a întâmpina pe cineva cu bucurie;

(mitol.) golden calf viţelul de aur.

2. pui (de elefant, balenă etc.).

3. piele de viţel;

bound in calf legat în piele de viţel.

4. (fig.) viţel(uş), nătărău, prostovan, gogoman.

5. sloi de gheaţa.

calf², plural calves substantiv

(anat.) gambă (de la îndoitura genunchiului în jos), muşchi geamăn.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Gretel presents Hans with a calf.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He took the wolf and locked him up in a cage, with a piece of meat that satisfied, in quantity at any rate, the elementary conditions of the fatted calf, and went off to report.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Hans takes the calf, puts it on his head, and the calf kicks his face.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Where have you the calf, Hans?

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

A calf.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Next morning when the cows were being driven out, the little peasant called the cow-herd in and said: “Look, I have a little calf there, but it is still small and has to be carried.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

But the little peasant stood at his door, and waited for his little calf, and when the cow-herd drove the cows through the village, and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

At night when he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to the calf: If you can stand there and eat your fill, you can also go on your four legs; I don’t care to drag you home again in my arms.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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