"bum calf" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2005, Lynn Parr, Cowgirl: A Home on the Wyoming Range, page 149:",
          "text": "At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean, page 291:",
          "text": "I could do it all — I could play their game until I dropped — but I would never own a square foot of land, a bushel of oats or a bum calf in my own name.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Teresa Jordan, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, page 83:",
          "text": "She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Gretel Ehrlich, Heart Mountain, page 114:",
          "text": "\"I feel like a bum calf when you do this to me,\" Madeleine said and when her mother said, \"What?\" Madeleine said, \"Never mind.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt."
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          "heifer",
          "heifer"
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        [
          "bull",
          "bull"
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          "orphan",
          "orphan"
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        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
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          "runt",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bummer"
        },
        {
          "word": "dogie"
        },
        {
          "english": "primarily in Spanish-speaking areas",
          "word": "leppy"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "bum calf"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Lynn Parr, Cowgirl: A Home on the Wyoming Range, page 149:",
          "text": "At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Judy Blunt, Breaking Clean, page 291:",
          "text": "I could do it all — I could play their game until I dropped — but I would never own a square foot of land, a bushel of oats or a bum calf in my own name.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Teresa Jordan, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, page 83:",
          "text": "She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Gretel Ehrlich, Heart Mountain, page 114:",
          "text": "\"I feel like a bum calf when you do this to me,\" Madeleine said and when her mother said, \"What?\" Madeleine said, \"Never mind.\"",
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      ],
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        "A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt."
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    {
      "word": "bummer"
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    {
      "word": "dogie"
    },
    {
      "english": "primarily in Spanish-speaking areas",
      "word": "leppy"
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  "word": "bum calf"
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