veal meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

veal

noun

/viːl/

Etymology From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.

The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

Slang, Vulgar The female genitalia.

Derived terms: bod veal, rose veal, try the veal, veal crate, veal Milanese, veal Orloff, veal Orlov, veal-skin

verb

Etymology From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.

To raise a calf for meat production.

The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:
It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home: