The difference between Beef and Oxflesh
When used as nouns, beef means the edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat), whereas oxflesh means the flesh or meat of an ox or similar bovine.
Beef is also verb with the meaning: to complain.
Beef is also adjective with the meaning: being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beef and Oxflesh
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Beef as a noun (uncountable):
The meat from a cow, bull or other bovine. The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat). Bovine animals. A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat. Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency. Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
Examples:
"I love eating beef."
"[[lean finely textured beef]]"
"[[boneless lean beef trimmings]]"
"Do you want to raise beeves?"
"Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump."
"We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law."
"The beef of his paper was a long rant about government."
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Beef as a noun (slang, countable, or, uncountable, 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)
Examples:
"He's got a beef with everyone in the room."
"He's got beef over what you said."
"Remember what happened last fall? That's his beef with me."
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Beef as a verb (intransitive):
To complain.
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Beef as a verb (transitive):
To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
Examples:
"Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out."
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Beef as a verb (intransitive, slang):
To fart; break wind.
Examples:
"Ugh, who just beefed in here?"
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Beef as a verb (AAVE, intransitive, slang):
To feud or hold a grudge against.
Examples:
"Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now."
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Beef as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire):
To cry
Examples:
"David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off"
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Beef as an adjective:
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Examples:
"We bought three beef calves this morning."
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Beef as an adjective:
Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
Examples:
"beef farms"
"beef country"
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Beef as an adjective:
Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
Examples:
"beef stew"
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Oxflesh as a noun:
The flesh or meat of an ox or similar bovine; beef