A humorous archaic British slang term for a calf, based on the joke that the county of Essex lacked impressive wildlife — so the most impressive beast found there was a farm calf. The term belongs to a tradition of regional mock-boastfulness. Entirely archaic and mainly of interest to students of historical English humour and slang.
He swaggered in talking about the beast he had seen in the field, and someone muttered it was probably just another Essex lion.
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(archaic, slang) A calf .
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