beef

noun · verb · adjectiveA1

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noun

Plural noun:

beefbeefsbeeves

1.
(uncountable)The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
I love eating beef.
He was cooking beef for lunch.
Đồng nghĩa: cowflesh, oxflesh
2.
(uncountable)Bovine animals.
3.
(Canada, US, countable, uncommon)(now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
Do you want to raise beeves?
263. If he [one to whom a beef or sheep is loaned] ruins the beef or sheep that was loaned him, he is to return to the owner a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.
Cutting out a Beef for branding
4.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(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. (often + with)
He's got beef over what you said.
He's got a beef with everyone in the room.
Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.
5.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(prison slang) A criminal charge.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

beefs

V_ing/Gerund

beefing

V_ed/pp

beefed

1.
(intransitive, slang)To complain.
2.
(slang, transitive)To add weight or strength to.
Đồng nghĩa: beef up
3.
(intransitive, slang)To fart; break wind.
Ugh, who just beefed in here?
4.
(Yorkshire, intransitive)(intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off.
5.
(slang, transitive)To fail or mess up.
I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.
6.
(Multicultural London English, intransitive, slang)(chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
Those two are beefing right now — best you stay out of it.
7.
(Australia, intransitive, slang)To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable)Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
We bought three beef calves this morning.
2.
(not comparable)Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
beef farms
beef country
3.
(not comparable)Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
beef stew
4.
(not comparable, slang)Beefy; powerful; robust.
Wow, your audio setup is beef!

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from beof, Old French buef, boef (ox) (modern bœuf); from Latin bovem (ox), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. cow.