Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stupid; thick-headed; having the brain or sense of an ox.
- Obese; solid; beefy.
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- adjective resembling
beef
Etymologies
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Examples
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During the segment, Colbert took a few bites of the Bell's Beefy Crunch Burrito, all the while describing the meat inside using words like "beefy,""beefish," and even "beef-esque."
WATCH: Colbert Defends Taco Bell's 'Beefy' Honor Carol Hartsell 2011
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During the segment, Colbert took a few bites of the Bell's Beefy Crunch Burrito, all the while describing the meat inside using words like "beefy,""beefish," and even "beef-esque."
WATCH: Colbert Defends Taco Bell's 'Beefy' Honor Carol Hartsell 2011
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He seemed to consider personal ease, rather than taste, in the arrangement of his toilet; for he appeared in the presence of the court in a pair of half-worn slippers, stockings "down-gyved," a shirt-bosom much spotted with tobacco-juice, and a neck-cloth loosely adjusted about his red, beefish throat.
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"The best thing a man born in this island can do is to eat his beef and mutton and drink his porter, and take things as they are; and think thoughts that shall be so beefish, muttonish, portish, and porterish, that they shall be matters rather material than intellectual.
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892
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