单词 | beef-fed |
释义 | > as lemmasbeef-fed beef-fed adj. fed on beef; esp. as an epithet for a typical Englishman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed on specific food brawn-fed1567 haggis-fed1786 blubber-fed1835 pap-fed1873 beefish1887 beef-fed1903 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 78 And beef-fed zealots threaten in To Buddha and Kamakura. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) viii. 79 A beef-fed army and a beef-fed navy are what Englishmen believe they get for their money. 1934 E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 3 Apr. (1959) 159 Of course you (i.e. beef-fed materialistic Englishman (woman)) can argue. < as lemmas |
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