UDDER
What does "UDDER" mean?
The baggy milk-producing organ of a cow, goat, or other female mammal.
Meanings
- The single pendulous gland of a cow, ewe, or goat that holds two or more teats and produces milk. The farmer cleaned each udder before the milking machine went on.
Did you know?
- 'Udder' and 'exuberant' are distant cousins: both trace to a root meaning 'udder', whose Latin form 'uber' came to mean overflowing abundance - the milk made the metaphor.
Word origin
From Old English 'uder', from a Proto-Germanic root shared with German 'Euter'; ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European stem that gave Latin 'uber' (udder, abundance) and the English word 'exuberant'.
Remember it
UDDER is just 'rudder' steering a cow - or 'udder' minus a letter from 'utter', since a full one is utterly full.
A little poem
Dawn comes grey to the milking shed;
the warm bag swings its quiet weight-
the whole farm's breakfast, still unsaid.
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Wordplay
- I asked the cow if she had anything else to say. She said no, that was her udder remark.
What it teaches
Abundance often hangs heavy and unglamorous before anyone calls it a gift.
Quick facts
What does UDDER mean?
The baggy milk-producing organ of a cow, goat, or other female mammal.
Is UDDER a valid word?
Yes — UDDER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is UDDER?
UDDER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does UDDER come from?
From Old English 'uder', from a Proto-Germanic root shared with German 'Euter'; ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European stem that gave Latin 'uber' (udder, abundance) and the English word 'exuberant'.
What can UDDER teach us?
Abundance often hangs heavy and unglamorous before anyone calls it a gift.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.