Brahmin

noun

• 1variant spelling of Brahman (sense 1).

• 2US a socially or culturally superior person, especially one from New England: he did not talk like the son of a New England Brahmin [as modifier]:a verbal style filched from one of her Brahmin bosses

• 3 (also Brahminy bull or US Brahman) an ox of a humped breed originally domesticated in India, which is tolerant of heat and drought and is now kept widely in tropical and warm-temperate countries. Also called zebu.

  • Bos indicus, family Bovidae; now usually included under the name B. taurus with other domestic cattle