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beef | beeves |

As nouns the difference between beef and beeves

is that beef is the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines while beeves is plural of nodot=t lang=en: cows, bulls, or steers.

As a verb beef

is to complain.

As an adjective beef

is being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

beef

English

(wikipedia beef)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
    • I love eating beef .
  • # The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
  • lean finely textured beef
  • boneless lean beef trimmings
  • (uncountable) Bovine animals.
  • *
  • A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
    • Do you want to raise beeves ?
  • a grudge (+ with )
    • He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
    He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
  • (slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
    • Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
    We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
  • (slang, uncountable) essence, content
    • The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

    Synonyms

    * (meat of a cow)

    Hyponyms

    * (meat of a cow) veal

    Derived terms

    * beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?

    Related terms

    *

    See also

    * beefwood

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain.
  • *
  • To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
    • Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
  • (slang) To fart.
    • Ugh, who just beefed in here?
  • (slang) To feud.
    • Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
    • David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

    Derived terms

    * beef up * beef out

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
    • We bought three beef calves this morning.
  • Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
    • beef farms
    beef country
  • Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
    • beef stew

    Related terms

    * beefy

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals English words with multiple plurals ----

    beeves

    English

    Noun

    (head) plural
  • (archaic, or, humorous) : cows, bulls, or steers.
  • *
    • And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves , and of the asses, and of the sheep:
  • * 1638 : Herbert, Sir Thomas, ''Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
  • *:...bells and babies are valuable al?o here, and for which, (or one bead of cornelion) you ?hall have in exchange, Sheep (big tail'd like tho?e in Syria and Per?ia) Beeves and Buffaloes, big-bond, fat, and Camel-backt...
  • * 1667 ,
    • One way a Band select from forage drives
    A herd of Beeves , faire Oxen and faire Kine
    From a fat Meddow ground
  • *
    • …to deliver in every morning six beeves , forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance.
  • * 2004 , Ginger Hanson, Ransom's Bride , page 106
  • *:"I heard Texas was horses and beeves ."