beef

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 See also 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Derived terms 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old French boef (“‘ox’”) (modern French: bœuf); from Latin bōs (“‘ox’”). Cognate to bovine.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /biːf/, SAMPA: /bi:f/
• Rhymes: -iːf

[edit] Noun

beef (plural beef or beefs or beeves)

1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine.

   I hate eating beef.

2. (countable) Would be "a side of beef". A chunk, cut or piece not being the whole piece, cf ham.
3. (archaic, countable, plural: beef or beeves) A generic term for a cow or bull.

   Do you want to raise beeves?

4. (countable, plural: beefs) a complaint or disagreement

   He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.

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• bovine

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[edit] See also

• beefwood

[edit] Verb

to beef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)

1. (intransitive) To complain.
2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.

   Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.

[edit] Derived terms

• beef up
• beef out

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Verb

beef

1. First person singular of beven (to tremble)
2. Singular imperative of beven

   Sidder ende beef!