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beef

/bif/ 頻出 頻度 2657位

要点牛肉

意味

  1. 牛肉;(一般に)肉
  2. 《おもに米》肉牛,食肉牛;(屠殺(とさつ)して処理した)牛
  3. 《話》筋肉,力;体重,肉づき
  4. 《俗》不平,苦情
  5. (人に…について)不平をこぼす,ぶつぶつ言う《+at+名〈人〉+about+名》
  6. …を強化する,補強する

例文

語源

ラテン語bos「ウシ」古フランス語boef「ウシ」から。英語では牛の肉を表す語になった。

cowと遠い同源。porkと同じくフランス語由来の肉の名。

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Doublet of cow. Beef in the sense of “a grudge, argument” was originally an American slang expression: * attested as a verb “to complain” in 1888: “He'll beef an' kick like a steer an' let on he won't never wear 'em.”— New York World, 13 May; * attested as a noun “complaint, protest, grievance, sim.” in 1899: “He made a Horrible Beef because he couldn't get Loaf Sugar for his Coffee.”—Fables in Slang (1900) by George Ade, page 80.

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