Other forms: udders
An udder is the bag on a cow from which milk is drawn. A full udder, wash the udder, udder health.
A cow's has four quarters, each with its own teat and each independent — infection in one does not spread to the others, which is why they are treated separately. Udder health is a major concern in dairy farming. Note that the word is very old and shared across Indo-European languages.
1nounudderThe bag on a cow from which milk is drawn.
“The farmer cleaned the cow's udder before milking her.”
udder is a body part.
Old English uder comes from a Proto-Indo-European word for an udder. Latin uber and Greek outhar are relatives.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁ówHdʰr̥ — udder
Proto-Germanic
*ūdarą
Old English
ūder — udder; breast
Middle English
udder
English, today
udder
From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”). Cognate with stq Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), sa-ved ऊधर्, Ancient Greek οὖθαρ, Latin ūber.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA