"Mullingar heifer" Definition

Definitions for the word "Mullingar heifer" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
a girl with thick ankles.—_Irish._ The story goes that a traveller, passing through Mullingar, was so struck with this local peculiarity in the women, that he determined to accost the next one he met. “May I ask,” said he, “if you wear hay in your shoes?” “Faith an’ I do,” said the girl; “and what then?” “Because,” says the traveller, “that accounts for the calves of your legs coming down to feed on it.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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