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Synonyms for beef

Most common

crab grouse bellyache fart

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Other

fart

Noun

1. Cowflesh — the meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults. Essence, content; the important part of…

meat, cowflesh, oxflesh

2. Cattle

cattle, cow, cattle beast, neatbeast dated

Other

boeuf, kick

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To complain.

  2. n. 1

    The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults. Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.

    The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.

  3. n. 2

    The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.

    He was cooking beef for lunch.

Forms

Plural
beefs → meats, cattles, cows, neatbeasts…
Past participle
beefed
e.g. beefed → crabbed, groused, bitched, complained…

Example sentences

  • crab Snippy had the bluest blood of all his crab brethren.
  • grouse Grouse feed on the young shoots of heather.
  • bellyache A stomachache is usually mistaken for a bellyache.
  • fart I told you a million times not to fart in the car.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
beeffalling
crabsteady
grousesteady
bellyacherising
fartrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
cow1
4 letters
kick1, meat1, crab1, fart1, moan1
5 letters
bitch1, gripe1, boeuf
6 letters
cattle2, grouse1, holler2, squawk1, grouch1
7 letters
oxflesh
8 letters
complain2, cowflesh
9 letters
bellyache3, neatbeast

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cattle2 = 2 syllables).