Examples
“Signorina, the beeves are a present from Florence the beautiful Would ye look a gift beef i 'the nose?”
“It is curious that beef does not appear to have survived, though Leboeuf is common in French, and bullocks are still called "beeves" in Scotland.”
“Spread out before her were several open stock books, from which she was endeavoring to estimate the probable number of "beeves" which the early spring would produce.”
“Eve, 1538, speaks of his winter stock of "beeves" and muttons as a thing of course.”
“They used to use a sledgehammer for beeves and pigs, but you'd have to swing hard and not miss!”
“You keep order and behave yourself and I will give you two beeves every other day until you find out where the buffaloes are.”
“While staying at a Cheyenne village, he was told that white soldiers were coming to a great powwow and bringing beeves, sugar, and coffee.”
“In winter, more Comanches would arrive to camp on the reservation and to claim beeves and other food and annuity goods.”
“Having brought with me over the mountains a few head of beef cattle for the hungry Indians, without thinking of running any great personal risk I had six beeves killed some little distance from my camp, guarding the meat with four Soldiers, whom I was obliged to post as sentinels around the small area on which the carcasses lay.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“My mother presided over an open house with cases of champagne, roast beeves, turkeys, hams, yams, salads and platters of French cheeses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beeves’.
-
Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
-
When In Entropic~al English Locales.....
Care about your social environment? Save these endangered words from extinction... don't delay, adopt an out~of~date adjective today!
englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
-
Rabelation
Words and phrases from Urquhart and Motteaux's matchless translation of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (available here).
Make bold with suggestions down in the comment box.bum-gut, torchecul, septembral juice, turdy, linkie pinkie, neat's tongues, variorum, fanfreluches, well-mouthed wench, the close buttock..., rataconniculation, beeves and 300 more...
-
Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
-
Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
-
The Octopus
Words gleaned from Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus
deerhound, diapason, thitherward, chitter, unsteady, wiper, overspire, inanition, sheen, hiccough, quirt, broncho and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for beeves.
ducky4djo This is a word used to name a group of beef cattle. I know this because this word was featured in the board game Balderdash. Dec 28, 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 29, 2008
reesetee Haha! Jul 31, 2008
bilby Hang on, I'll go ask Jeefs. Jul 31, 2008
sakhalinskii It sounds very European. Jul 30, 2008
reesetee I always thought this sounded much more elegant than "beefs." Jul 30, 2008
chained_bear Usage: Valley Spirit (Va.), May 25, 1861:
The Spirit notes that George Law has received a contract from the government to supply the army with "twenty thousand beeves at eight cents per pound, live weight." The contractors will realize a profit of $600,000. The paper complains that "A few individuals are making princely fortunes at the expense of the tax-payers of the country." Jul 30, 2008