corned beef

See also: Corned Beef and corned-beef

English[edit]

From corn (“to preserve (meat) in grains and brine”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.

corned beef (countable and uncountable, plural corned beefs)

Smoke-cured and salted beef.
Beef conserved in tins (cans).
(UK, prison slang, historical) The chief officer of a prison.
- 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
  Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.

smoke-cured and salted beef

Chinese:
Cantonese: 鹹牛肉／咸牛肉 (haam⁴ ngau⁴ juk⁶)

Mandarin: 醃牛肉／腌牛肉 (zh) (yānniúròu)
Finnish: savunauta
French: corned-beef (fr) m
German: Corned Beef (de) n, Cornedbeef n, Corned beef n (old spelling), gepökeltes Rindfleisch n, Kraftfleisch n (regional), Rinderpökelfleisch n
Greek: παστό βοδινό n (pastó vodinó)
Irish: mairteoil shaillte f, mairteoil leasaithe f
Japanese: コーンビーフ (kōnbīfu)
Korean: 콘비프 (konbipeu), 콘드 비프 (kondeu bipeu)
Maori: pīwhi tote
Polish: peklowana wołowina f
Portuguese: salgado (pt) m, bife salgado m
Russian: солони́на (ru) f (solonína)
Vietnamese: thịt bò muối
Volapük: salodabubamit
Yiddish: פּעקלפֿלייש n (peklfleysh)

beef conserved in tins