What is the difference between hooey and beef?
hooey | beef |
(slang) Silly talk or writing; nonsense.
* 2006 , Ronald H. Hoffman (with Sidney Stevens), How to Talk with Your Doctor: The Guide for Patients and Their Physicians Who Want to Reconcile and Use the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine , ReadHowYouWant.com (2008),
* 2010 , Kate Sheppard, "
* 2011 October 13, Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan & Maria Ferrari, "The Russian Rocket Reaction", episode 5-5 of , 00:16:47–00:17:00:
*:Sheldon Cooper: I did, but I think I've kind of outgrown Star Trek . You know, stock characters, ludicrous plots, beam me up. What a load of hooey .
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
As nouns the difference between hooey and beef
is that hooey is silly talk or writing; nonsense while beef is the meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.As a verb beef is
to complain.As an adjective beef is
being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.hooey
English
Alternative forms
* hooieNoun
(-)- I heard his speech. It sounded like a whole lot of hooey to me.
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- For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey —okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.
Outgoing GOPer Slams Climate Denying Colleagues", Mother Jones , 18 November 2010:
- Unburdened by the prospect of another campaign, Inglis, in this final hearing, spared no scorn for climate change deniers in his own party and beyond, suggesting that they continue to ignore global warming at their own peril. "I would also suggest to my free enterprise colleagues—especially conservatives here—whether you think it’s all a bunch of hooey , what we've talked about in this committee, the Chinese don’t," the South Carolina Republican said in his opening remarks. "And they plan on eating our lunch in this next century."
Synonyms
* See alsobeef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- 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.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived 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?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew
