beefとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bif/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /biːf/
• 韻: -iːf

名詞

beef (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 beef または beefs または beeves)

1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.

   I love eating beef.

   1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).

      lean finely textured beef

      boneless lean beef trimmings

   2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
      • 2010 October 21, “Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders contest”, in Abilene Recorder Chronicle:

        However, there were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.

   3. (archaic, countable, 複数形: beeves) A single bovine (cow または bull) being raised for its meat.

      Do you want to raise beeves?

      • 1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XV.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 779243096, lines 398–401, page 394:

        As when two lions in the ſtill dark night / An herd of beeves ſcatter or num'rous flock / Suddenly, in the abſence of the guard, / So fled the heartleſs Greeks, [...]

   4. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.

      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.

   5. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.

      The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

2. (slang, countable or uncountable, 複数形: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something または someone); lack of faith or trust (in something または someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)

   He's got a beef with everyone in the room.

   He's got beef over what you said.

   Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me.

同意語

• (meat of a cow): cowflesh
• (meat of an ox): oxflesh

下位語

• (meat of a cow): veal

派生語

関連する語

• bovine

参考

• beefwood

動詞

beef (三人称単数 現在形 beefs, 現在分詞 beefing, 過去形および過去分詞形 beefed)

1. (intransitive) To complain.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation.

2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to; to beef up.
   • 1969, Hot Rod (volume 22, page 59)

     First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas).

3. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.

   Ugh, who just beefed in here?

4. (African-American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.

   Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.

5. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry

   David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off

6. (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.

   I beefed my presentation hard yesterday.

派生語

• beef up
• beef out

形容詞

beef (not comparable)

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

   We bought three beef calves this morning.

2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

   beef farms

   beef country

3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

   beef stew

関連する語

• beefy

参照

アナグラム

• Feeb, feeb