different between beef vs bouillon

English

Etymology

From Middle English beef, bef, beof, borrowed from Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef, boef (“ox”) (modern French bœuf); from Latin b?s (“ox”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws.

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.

As to the possible origin of this American usage, it has been suggested that it can be traced back to a British expression for “alarm”, first recorded in 1725: "BEEF 'to alarm, as To cry beef upon us; they have discover'd us, and are in Pursuit of us". The term "beef" in this context would be a Cockney rhyming slang of thief. The continuous use of a similar expression, including its assumed semantic shift to 'complaint' in the United States from the 1880s onwards, needs further clarification though.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bif/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bi?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

beef (countable and uncountable, plural beef or beefs or beeves)

1. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.

   Synonyms: cowflesh, oxflesh

   Hyponym: veal

   1. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).

   2. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.

   3. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.

      Synonym: meat

2. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
3. (archaic, countable, plural: beeves) A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
4. (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)

Derived terms

Related terms

• bovine

Translations

See also

• beefwood

Verb

beef (third-person singular simple present beefs, present participle beefing, simple past and past participle beefed)

1. (intransitive) To complain.
2. (transitive) To add weight or strength to.

   Synonym: beef up

   • 1969, Hot Rod (volume 22, page 59)

     First off, the axle housing was beefed by welding areas where extreme loading is evident (black marked areas).

3. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.

4. (African-American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.

5. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.

6. (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.

Derived terms

• beef up
• beef out

Adjective

beef (not comparable)

1. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.

2. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

Related terms

• beefy

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Feeb, feeb

Afrikaans

Verb

beef (present beef, present participle bewende, past participle gebeef)

1. Alternative form of bewe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?f

Verb

beef

1. first-person singular present indicative of beven
2. imperative of beven

English

Etymology

First attested 1656, from French bouillon, from the verb bouillir (“to boil”), from Old French boillir, from Latin bull?re, present active infinitive of bulli? (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bu?.j?n/, /?bu?.j??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?l?j?n/, /?b?lj?n/, /?bu?j?n/

Noun

bouillon (countable and uncountable, plural bouillons)

1. A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken.
2. An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

Hypernyms

• (type of broth): broth

Hyponyms

• Scotch broth

Derived terms

• bouillon cube
• court bouillon

Related terms

• bullion (bulk gold or silver)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu(l)?j?n/
• Hyphenation: bouil?lon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons, diminutive bouillonnetje n)

1. stock, broth (water in which meat (or other food) has been boiled)

   Synonym: vleesnat

2. (dated) bullion, fringe of gold or silver wire

   Synonym: cantille

Derived terms

• bouillonblokje

French

Etymology

bouillir +? -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.j??/

Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons)

1. broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
2. bubble rising from a boiling liquid
3. gulp of liquid which escapes forcefully
4. flesh rising on a fold
5. risen fold of cloth
6. unsold copies of a publication
7. simple restaurant, which originally served only bouillon

Derived terms

• boire le bouillon
• boire le bouillon d'onze heures
• bouillon de culture
• bouilloire
• bouillon-blanc
• bouillonnement
• bouillonner
• bouillotte

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “bouillon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

bouillon m

1. mud

Derived terms

• bouillounou (“muddy”)