Heifer

1) A young female cow that has not yet produced an offspring. 2) Used in a derogatory manner to insult a lady through the implication she is fat and heavy figured like a cow.



//You'll have time and opportunity (and inclination too, I dont doubt) to make me regret that I have spoken. To fall into sloth and idleness again. However, reward was created for man the same as chastisement. Do you see that heifer yonder? From today that calf is your own// (LIA 182).

//He dressed in the dark, swiftly. He was already late, because he had had to give them time to get to sleep after all the uproar about the heifer, the uproar which the woman had caused by meddling after it was all over, settled for the night, anyway// (LIA 171).