Whats a Slang Term for Having Beef
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Former French buef, boef ( " ox " ) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bōs ( " ox " ), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow
Beef in the sense of "a grudge, statement" was originally an American slang expression:[1]
- attested equally a verb "to complain" in 1888: "He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never vesture 'em."— New York Globe, 13 May;
- attested as a noun "complaint, protestation, grievance, sim." in 1899: "He made a Horrible Beef considering he couldn't get Loaf Saccharide for his Coffee."—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80.
As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that information technology can be traced dorsum to a British expression for "alarm", first recorded in 1725:[ii] "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd united states, and are in Pursuit of the states". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. The continuous utilise of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification though.[3]
Pronunciation [edit]
- ( General American ) IPA(key): /bif/
- ( UK ) IPA(key): /biːf/
- Rhymes: -iːf
Noun [edit]
beefiness (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)
- ( uncountable ) The meat from a cow, balderdash, or other bovine.
- Synonyms: cowflesh, oxflesh
- Hyponym: veal
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I love eating beef.
- ( in the meat manufacture, on product packaging ) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are non meat).
- ( by extension, slang, uncountable ) Musculus or musculature; size, forcefulness or potency.
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Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the crash-land.
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We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that police force.
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- ( figuratively, slang, uncountable ) Essence, content; the important part of a document or projection.
- Synonym: meat
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The beef of his paper was a long bluster about government.
- ( uncountable ) Bovine animals.
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2010 October 21, "Who's the existent McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in viii Wonders contest", in Abilene Recorder Chronicle:
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All the same, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.
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- ( archaic, countable, plural: beeves ) A single bovine (cow or balderdash) being raised for its meat.
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Do you want to raise beeves?
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1791, Homer; Due west[illiam] Cowper, transl., "[The Iliad.] Book Fifteen.", in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, [ … ] , volume I, London: [ … ] J[oseph] Johnson, [ … ] , OCLC 779243096, lines 398–401, folio 394:
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Equally when two lions in the ſtill dark dark / An herd of beeves ſcatter or num'rous flock / Suddenly, in the abſence of the guard, / So fled the heartleſs Greeks, […]
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- 1903 March, Henry Mason Baum, Frederick Bennett Wright, George Frederick Wright, Records of the Past, volume Two, part III, page 87, translating the laws of Hammurabi:
- 263. If he [1 to whom a beefiness or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beefiness for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.
- 1920-1930, Photo in the Due north Dakota State Museum:
- Cutting out a Beef for branding
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- ( slang, uncountable or countable, plural: beefs ) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (oftentimes + with)
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He's got beefiness over what you said.
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He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
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Remember what happened last autumn? That's his beef with me.
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Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from beef (noun)
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- bovine
Translations [edit]
meat
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See too [edit]
- beefwood
Verb [edit]
beef (tertiary-person singular uncomplicated present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)
- ( intransitive ) To complain.
- ( transitive ) To add weight or forcefulness to.
- Synonym: beefiness up
- 1969, Hot Rod (book 22, folio 59)
- Commencement off, the axle housing was beefed past welding areas where extreme loading is axiomatic (black marked areas).
- ( intransitive, slang ) To fart; break current of air.
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Ugh, who just beefed in here?
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- ( African-American Colloquial, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang ) To feud or concur a grudge confronting.
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Those two are beefing right now - all-time y'all stay out of information technology for now.
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- ( intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire ) To weep.
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David was beefing last night subsequently Ruth told him off.
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- ( transitive, slang ) To neglect or mess up.
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I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
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Derived terms [edit]
- beef up
- beef out
Adjective [edit]
beefiness (non comparable)
- Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
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We bought three beef calves this morning.
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- Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
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beef farms
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beef country
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- Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
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beef stew
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- ( slang ) Beefy; powerful; robust.
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Wow, your audio setup is beef!
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- beefy
Translations [edit]
being a bovine animal raised for meat
producing or raising lots of beef meat
having beef as an ingredient
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References [edit]
- ^ "Origin of the slang AmE and BrE usage of "beef"", in StackExchange[1], (please provide a engagement or year)
- ^ The New Canting Dictionary: Comprehending All the Terms, Ancient and Modern, Used in the Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Shoplifters, Highwaymen, Foot-pads etc. London.
- ^ Michael Quinion (1996–2022), "Lamentatory", in World Wide Words.
Anagrams [edit]
- Feeb, feeb
Afrikaans [edit]
Verb [edit]
beef (present beef , nowadays participle bewende, past participle gebeef)
- Alternative form of bewe
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eːf
Verb [edit]
beefiness
- starting time-person singular present indicative of beven
- imperative of beven
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beef
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