beef-steakn.
/ˈbiːfˈsteɪk/ A steak or thick slice of beef, cut from the hind-quarters of the animal, suitable for grilling or frying.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1711 [see Beef-steak Club n. at Compounds 2].
1715 Spectator No. 639 (1734) IX. 13 He tossed his Hat into the Frying-pan, and made a Beef-stake of it.
a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) anno 1783 IV. 197 [Johnson:] Let you and I, Sir, go together and eat a beef-steak in Grub-street.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xviii. 189 I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beef-steaks put to my eyes.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as in beef-steak pie, beef-steak pudding.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie
rafiolea1425
shred-pie1573
Florentine1579
marrowbone pie1595
marrow pie1598
meat pie1607
mutton pie1607
olive pie1615
venison piea1616
flesh-pie1616
veal (and ham) piea1625
godiveau1653
lumber-pie1656
mermaid pie1661
umble-pie1663
humble piea1665
trotter-pie1693
stump pie1695
mugget pie1696
pot-pie1702
squab-pie1708
pork pie1723
steak pie1723
Perigord pie1751
pasticcio1772
fidget pie1790
muggety pie1800
numble pie1822
Florentine pie1823
pastilla1834
kidney-pie1836
beef-steak pie1841
stand pie1872
Melton Mowbray1875
timbale1880
pâté en croûte1929
tourtière1953
growler1989
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. x. 123 She was carving a beef-steak-pie.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 359/1 A good beef-steak supper.
C2.
Beef-steak Club n. a celebrated society founded by Lord Peterborough; the members wore a gridiron upon their buttons.
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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶8 The Beef-Steak and October Clubs are neither of them averse to Eating and Drinking.
beef-steak fungus n. (also beef-steak mushroom) a fungus, Fistulina hepatica, somewhat resembling a beef-steak in appearance.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom > types of
champignon1578
meadow mushroom1597
goat's beard1640
button mushroom1708
flap1744
flab?18..
whitecap1801
nutmeg-boletus1813
blewits1830
mitre mushroom1854
St. George's mushroom1854
springer1860
cheese-room1865
horse mushroom1866
oyster mushroom1875
redmilk1882
beef-steak fungus1886
blusher1887
shaggy cap1894
shaggy mane1895
maitake1905
shiitake1925
oysterc1950
miller1954
porcino1954
saffron milk cap1954
old man of the woods1972
portobello1985
1886 J. Stevenson Brit. Fungi II. 183 Fistula..F. hepatica..Edible and nourishing, but rather coarse, and not a very pleasant flavour. Known as the beef-steak fungus. Slices exactly like beef-steak.
1895 W. H. Gibson Our Edible Toadstools & Mushrooms 213 The beefsteak mushroom—Fistulina hepatica... Its upper surface was dark meaty red or liver colored.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools xix. 231 Fistulina hepatica, the Beef-Steak Fungus, looking somewhat like an ox-tongue with a glutinous upper surface, yellow tubes and streaky flesh exuding a red juice.
Derivatives
Beefsteaker n. a member of the Beefsteak Club.
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1883 Cornhill Mag. (article) Beefsteakers.
Draft additions December 2003
beefsteak tomato n. originally U.S. any of a number of large, firm varieties of tomato.
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1896 N. Amer. Rev. June (Advt. section) Beefsteak tomato ketchup.
1964 L. Linton Of Days & Driftwood vi. 35 Twenty-four of Ken's tomato plants yielded one season 300 pounds of beefsteak tomatoes.
1994 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Mar. 38/2 We could grow wheat, corn or beefsteak tomatoes in our backyard gardens!
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