(AU, dated, sometimes derogatory) Catholic.
(AU, dated, sometimes derogatory) Catholic.
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(Indian English) head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine.
A Scottish idiom for people or things that are unpredictable, tricky, and hard to manage — the human equivalent of livestock that won't stay in their pen. 'Kittle' means ticklish or difficult in Scots, and cattle were historically the ultimate test of patience. Together, kittle cattle perfectly captures that exasperated shrug when dealing with a group that refuses to cooperate, behave, or make any sense whatsoever.
(British, especially, Scotland, and, Northern Ireland, derogatory, religious slur) An Irish Catholic.
(Scotland) , unmanageable people or things.
Any of several species of ticks that feed on cattle, typically the larger soft-bodied variaties.
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