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from The Century Dictionary.

noun Cattle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun (Zoöl.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See id.

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noun An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.
noun obsolete Cattle.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old English orf ("cattle, livestock"), akin to Old English ierfe ("inheritance, livestock, cattle"). More at erf.

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Fern duz Jump onna belly..jump orf teh belly..wait…Jump..orf..

Kitteh law #2 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
“Carn’t yer see you’ve bloomin’ well rubbed all the gent’s skin orf?”

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'E's been called orf to see a lady who couldn't wait.

Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts Mark Ambient
Thin he began sootherin 'her, an' all the orf'cers an 'orf'cers' ladies left, an 'they put out the lights.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
'Wan day, bein' mortial idle, or they wud never ha 'thried ut, the rig'mint gave amshure theatricals -- orf'cers an' orf'cers 'ladies.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'.

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Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of

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If the populace now see that as PM he is "'orf' is 'ead" will they perchance put two and two togther and work out that he was just as mad as Chancellor and realise that his policies then were just as ludicrous the current ones?

British Blogs 2008
Hayts orf t'erny-waan hundure-sterd awurrd Jayff Breedgis sayd.

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I do hope they were told orf for not wearing their hats like we get even when walking across the car park to the patrol cars. on January 14, 2010 at 6: 20 pm inspectorgadget

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sionnach commented on the word orf

viral infection of sheep

October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word orf

Also the abbreviation for the Norfolk, VA airport. (Just thought I'd throw that out there.)

October 16, 2007
sionnach commented on the word orf

contagious pustular dermatosis - caused by a pox virus, this is a zoonosis caught from sheep - an occupational hazard for farmers and veterinarians. It is self-limiting but unpleasant and painful.

July 24, 2008
super-charolastra commented on the word orf

It's also the state TV broadcaster in Austria. Never knew this was an English word, so that's kind of hilarious...

February 27, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word orf

Also scabby mouth or contagious ecthyma, a disease of sheep that mostly affects yearling lambs.

February 18, 2010
MaryW commented on the word orf

There are many poxviruses in nature, and they infect species that gather in swarms and herds, circulating among them like pickpockets at a fair. There are two principal kinds of pox viruses: the poxes of vertebrates and the poxes of insects. Pox hunters have so far discovered mousepox, monkeypox, skunkpox, pigpox, goatpox, camelpox, pseudocowpox, buffalopox, gerbilpox, several deerpoxes, chamoispox, a couple of sealpoxes, turkeypox, canarypox, pigeonpox, starlingpox, peacockpox, sparrowpox, juncopox, mynahpox, quailpox, parrotpox, and toadpox. There's mongolian horsepox, a pox called Yaba monkey tumor, and a pox called orf. There's dolphinpox, penguinpox, two kangaroopoxes, raccoonpox, and quokkapox. (The quokka is an Australian wallaby.) Snakes catch snakepox, spectacled caimans suffer from spectacled caimanpox, and crocodiles get crocpox. . . .
Insects are tortured by poxviruses. There are three groups of insect poxviruses: the beetlepoxes, the butterflypoxes (which include the mothpoxes), and the poxes of flies, including the mosquitopoxes. Any attempt to get to the bottom of the insect poxes would be like trying to enumerate the nine billion names of God.
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. . . The insect poxes may have arisen in early Devonian times, long before the age of dinosaurs . . . when . . . the first insects were evolving. . . .
At least two known midgepoxes torment midges. Grasshoppers are known to suffer from at least six different grasshopperpoxes. If a plague of African locusts breaks out with locustpox, the plague is hit with a plague, and is in deep trouble. Poxviruses keep herds and swarms of living things in check, preventing them from growing too large and overwhelming their habitats.
Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (New York: Random House, 2002), pp. 64-66

February 29, 2016