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staggering bob en · NOUN
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(Ireland, UK, obsolete) A very young calf killed for veal; meat from an animal killed when very young or otherwise unfit for eating.
Wretched brutes there at the cattlemarket waiting for the poleaxe to split their skulls open. Moo. Poor trembling calves. Meh. Staggering bob.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 163:In Liverpool they do not permit the sale of calves called ‘slink’ or ‘staggering Bob’.
1878, Western Mail [Cardiff], 13 April
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