Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An animal of the bovine genus, as a cow, bull, or ox.
Wiktionary
- n. A beef; a beef creature.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beef; a beef creature.
Etymologies
- Formed from beeves, plural of beef. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The first two are to cut across the grain of the meat, and thus obtain, when the beeve is a good one, really the best steaks in the animal.”
“Money, however, still bore a fixed proportion to cattle; as appears from the Saxon law (Tit. xviii.): "The Solidus is of two kinds; one contains two tremisses, that is, a beeve of twelve months, or a sheep with its lamb; the other, three tremisses, or a beeve of sixteen months.”
“The French “boeuf” pronounced, roughly, berf means “beeve”, that is, the singular of cattle.”
“So fish on feet, bird on face...maybe have a Kobe beeve nibble your hair?”
“Had to buy a half beeve to get that price but it fit easily into our freezer space…. depends on the animal, of course.”
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“One man said, “Oh, I've driv many a beeve through here.””
“Even the beeve kind are destitute of their usual stateliness and dignity of head: [34] they are, however, numerous, and form the most esteemed, and, indeed, the only species of wealth.”
“There are about thirty pounds in a sirloin that has been cut from a large beeve.”
“They mended their shoes with pieces of leather cut from the saddle-skirts as long as they lasted, and, when this material was gone, they covered the entire shoe with green beeve or mule hide, drawn together and sewed upon the top, with the hair inside, which protected the upper as well as the sole leather.”
“It is further described to be of the size of a beeve, and to be likewise a fierce creature, contrary to what is observed of the goat or deer kind, which, unless they are irritated and highly provoked, are all of them of a shy and timorous nature.”
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Lists
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Cormac McCarthy
words from Cormac McCarthy books.
rucked, pinchbeck, cinderblock, sumac, pokeweed, frograils, fishplates, bolo, rictus, polyp, neap, flitch and 58 more...
Tweets
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yarb X-ref to beeves. Aug 29, 2008
yarb I think that's a good idea for a list, jmp! Aug 27, 2008
johnmperry I think you're right, and one can't back-form a singular. A propos, my son, when small, decided logically enough that the plural of my (VW) Golf was golves.
Similar incorrect back-formations would include knive, wive, dwarve, loave, etc. Maybe I should create them all as new "words" here - one seems to get credit for bad spelling, foreign languages, ... Aug 27, 2008
yarb Or is this just an obsolete plural of beef? Aug 27, 2008
yarb The picnic and barbecue were to be held around the spring where Broderson Creek took its rise. Already two entire beeves were roasting there...
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 5 Aug 27, 2008