cammocky

English

Etymology

cammock +‎ -y

Adjective

cammocky (not comparable)

1. (UK, dialectal, chiefly Southern England, of milk, butter or cheese) Having an unpleasant taste or smell because it came from a cow that ate cammock.
   • 2006, Jocelyne Lawton, Flowers & Fables: A Welsh Herbal, page 49:

     Folklore English farmers certainly disliked restharrow for another reason. Although it was eaten with relish by the cows, it used to taint the taste of the milk, butter and cheese, and ‘cammocky’ butter was a nuisance in counties where restharrow is common.

   • 1975, Geoffrey Grigson, The Englishman's flora, page 141:

     Cammocky butter was a nuisance in Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In the north children dug up the root and chewed it.