angus

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A male given name of mostly Scottish usage

Angus was a great enlargement of experience for me, because he illustrated how haphazardly Fate attributes names to her unoffending children. Angus McGubbin: a Scots giant, red-haired and scowling - wouldn't you think so?.

A county in Scotland
A nickname for the 0-8-8-0 train configuration
A black, hornless breed of beef cattle, originally from Scotland
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Angus cattle (Aberdeen Angus) are a breed of cattle much used in beef production. They were developed from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeenshire and Angus in Scotland, and are known as Aberdeen Angus in most parts of the world
{i} type of Scottish cow
a county in central eastern Scotland, with a coast on the North Sea. Breed of black, hornless beef cattle. Formerly known as Aberdeen Angus, it originated in northeastern Scotland, but its ancestry is obscure. Angus have a compact and low-set body. The fine quality of the flesh and the high dressing percentage make it a beef breed of the highest rank. Introduced into the U.S. in 1873, its influence there and in other countries spread widely thereafter
of mostly Scottish usage
{i} male first name; region in Scotland
Air National Guard United States
(pronounced ang-giss): Angus is a former county in the northeast of Central Scotland, the southern boundry of which is the Firth of Tay and the eastern the North sea It is now the name of a single-tier local council administering much the same area as the old county
An electronic trust and payment service being developed by the four major banks in Australia
black hornless breed from Scotland
Celtic god of love and beauty; patron deity of young men and women

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angus cattle
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Angus cattle (Aberdeen Angus) are a breed of cattle much used in beef production. They were developed from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeenshire and Angus in Scotland, and are known as Aberdeen Angus in most parts of the world
angus og
Celtic god of love and beauty; patron deity of young men and women
Aberdeen Angus
An animal of the Aberdeen Angus breed
Aberdeen Angus
A breed of black hornless beef cattle originating in Scotland
black Angus
a breed of black, hornless cattle from Scotland
John Angus Chamberlain
born April 16, 1927, Rochester, Ind., U.S. U.S. sculptor. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Black Mountain College. In 1957 he had his first one-man exhibition in Chicago. His Abstract Expressionist sculptures are often constructed of fragments of automobiles, crushed and jammed together, and painted in bright, industrial colours; these produce an effect of isolated, frozen movement. He also exhibited paintings, prints, and films
John Angus McPhee
born March 8, 1931, Princeton, N.J., U.S. U.S. journalist and nonfiction writer. He attended Princeton University. After working as an associate editor at Time (1957-64), he became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1965. His nonfiction covers a wide variety of topics. His first book was on Bill Bradley; places he has written about include New Jersey, Alaska, the American West (several books), and Switzerland; other topics include the citrus industry, aeronautical engineering, the birch-bark canoe, and nuclear terrorism. He has taught journalism at Princeton since 1975. His later works include Annals of the Former World (1998, Pulitzer Prize)
aberdeen angus
black hornless breed from Scotland
angus

    Hyphenation

    An·gus

    Turkish pronunciation

    änggıs

    Pronunciation

    /ˈaɴɢgəs/ /ˈæŋɡəs/

    Etymology

    [ 'a[ng]-g&s ] (noun.) 1842. Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Aonghus or Aonghas, perhaps literally "one choice".
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