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Jamjar74 | 17:18 Sun 19th Jan 2014 | Word Origins
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We are a Lancashire family and my old mother used to refer to someone with fat legs as "Legs like a Mullangolly (spelling probably not right) heifer". Has anyone heard of this expression and knows it origin. Have a vague recollection it had something to do with Ireland. Would be interested to hear any thought on this.

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It's a 'Mullingar' heifer - town in Westmeath, Ireland.
The phrase is 'Beef to the heel like a Mullingar heifer'.

Usually rendered as 'beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer'.
Yes JAMJAR - "beef to the heels like a Mulligar Heifer" is correct - used (often by a woman with very good legs) to describe a woman with large calves and no ankles - a bitchy dig! in the shins.
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Thank you all, now my husband (who is a southerner) will not think I am so batty after all.

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