What Does It Mean if You Have Beef With Someone
English language [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef ( " ox " ) (mod French bœuf); from Latin bōs ( " ox " ), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of moo-cow
Beefiness in the sense of "a grudge, argument" was originally an American slang expression:[1]
- attested as a verb "to mutter" in 1888: "He'll beef an' boot like a steer an' let on he won't never vesture 'em."— New York Globe, 13 May;
- attested as a noun "complaint, protest, grievance, sim." in 1899: "He made a Horrible Beefiness because he couldn't get Loaf Saccharide for his Coffee."—Fables in Slang (1900) past George Ade, page 80.
As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for "alarm", beginning recorded in 1725:[2] "Beefiness 'to alarm, as To cry beefiness upon the states; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. The continuous utilise of a like 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/
- ( U.k. ) IPA(cardinal): /biːf/
- Rhymes: -iːf
Noun [edit]
beef (countable and uncountable, plural beefiness or beefs or beeves)
- ( uncountable ) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
- Synonyms: cowflesh, oxflesh
- Hyponym: veal
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I love eating beef.
- ( in the meat industry, on product packaging ) The edible portions of a moo-cow (including those which are non meat).
- ( by extension, slang, uncountable ) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
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Put some beef into information technology! Nosotros've got to get the car over the crash-land.
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Nosotros've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that police.
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- ( figuratively, slang, uncountable ) Essence, content; the important function of a certificate or project.
- Synonym: meat
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The beef of his paper was a long bluster almost government.
- ( uncountable ) Bovine animals.
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2010 October 21, "Who's the real McCoy? Abilene's Joseph in 8 Wonders competition", in Abilene Recorder Chronicle:
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Nevertheless, in that location were millions of head of beef roaming the plains of Texas.
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- ( archaic, countable, plural: beeves ) A single bovine (cow or bull) existence raised for its meat.
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Do you want to heighten beeves?
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1791, Homer; W[illiam] Cowper, transl., "[The Iliad.] Book XV.", in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Bare Poetry, [ … ] , book I, London: [ … ] J[oseph] Johnson, [ … ] , OCLC 779243096, lines 398–401, page 394:
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Equally when 2 lions in the ſtill dark night / An herd of beeves ſcatter or num'rous flock / All of a sudden, in the abſence of the guard, / And so fled the heartleſs Greeks, […]
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- 1903 March, Henry Bricklayer Baum, Frederick Bennett Wright, George Frederick Wright, Records of the By, volume II, part III, page 87, translating the laws of Hammurabi:
- 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 possessor a beef for a beef and a sheep for a sheep.
- 1920-1930, Photo in the N 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. (often + with)
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He's got beef over what y'all said.
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He's got a beefiness with everyone in the room.
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Think what happened terminal fall? That's his beefiness with me.
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Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from beef (substantive)
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- bovine
Translations [edit]
meat
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Encounter too [edit]
- beefwood
Verb [edit]
beefiness (3rd-person singular unproblematic present beefs, present participle beefing, elementary past and past participle beefed)
- ( intransitive ) To complain.
- ( transitive ) To add weight or force to.
- Synonym: 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).
- ( intransitive, slang ) To fart; break air current.
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Ugh, who just beefed in here?
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- ( African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang ) To feud or concur a grudge against.
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Those ii are beefing right now - best you stay out of information technology for now.
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- ( intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire ) To cry.
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David was beefing concluding night after Ruth told him off.
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- ( transitive, slang ) To fail 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]
beef (non comparable)
- Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
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Nosotros bought 3 beef calves this morning.
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- Producing or known for raising lots of beefiness.
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beefiness farms
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beef country
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- Consisting of or containing beef every bit an ingredient.
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beefiness stew
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- ( slang ) Bulky; powerful; robust.
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Wow, your audio setup is beef!
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- bulky
Translations [edit]
being a bovine animate being 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 "beefiness"", in StackExchange[1], (please provide a date or year)
- ^ The New Canting Dictionary: Comprehending All the Terms, Ancient and Modern, Used in the Several Tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Shoplifters, Highwaymen, Pes-pads etc. London.
- ^ Michael Quinion (1996–2022), "Beefing", in World Wide Words.
Anagrams [edit]
- Feeb, feeb
Afrikaans [edit]
Verb [edit]
beef (present beefiness , present participle bewende, by participle gebeef)
- Alternative form of bewe
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -eːf
Verb [edit]
beef
- first-person singular present indicative of beven
- imperative of beven
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beef
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