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n. m.1. 'Gaffer', 'guv'nor', boss. Il va falloir que j'en cause à mon singe! I'll have to ask the boss about it!2. 'Bully beef', corned beef. (Amongst the hypotheses as to the origin of the appellation, Cellard and Rey in their DICTIONNAIRE DU FRANÇAIS NON-CONVENTIONNEL suggest 19th- century tales of woe where French soldiers serving on the Ivory Coast were reduced to eating monkey-meat. Less far-fetchcd is the present authors' version whereby the contents of a certain brand of corned beef bore a jovial monkey on the label.)3. Ce n'est pas à un vieux singe qu'on apprend à faire des grimaces! (iron.): Don't try and teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
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Bully beef — Bully Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n., Bully beef Bul ly beef (b[.u]l l[y^] b[=e]f ). [F. bouilli boiled meat, fr. bouillir to boil. See {Boil}, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the labels of canned beef.] Pickled or canned beef.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bully beef — noun beef cured or pickled in brine • Syn: ↑corned beef, ↑corn beef • Hypernyms: ↑beef, ↑boeuf * * * noun see bully VI * * * canned or pickled beef. [1865 70] * * * … Useful english dictionary
Bully Beef and Chips — were fictional characters who had their own strip in the UK comic The Dandy. It started in the 1960s and continued until 1997 . The strip told the story of two warring boys a tall, ugly thug called Bully Beef and a softer, more cunning lad called … Wikipedia
bully beef — /ˈbʊli bif/ (say boolee beef) noun Colloquial tinned meat, especially corned beef. {see bully2} …
bully beef — canned or pickled beef. [1865 70] * * * … Universalium
bully beef — noun pickled or canned beef … Wiktionary
bully beef — canned or pickled beef … English contemporary dictionary
bully beef — noun (U) BrE corned beef … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
bully beef — Tinned meat … A concise dictionary of English slang
bully — bully1 [bool′ē] n. pl. bullies [orig., sweetheart < Du boel, lover, brother < MHG buole (Ger buhle), lover, prob. orig. dim. of bruder,BROTHER; later infl. by BULL1] 1. a person who hurts, frightens, or tyrannizes over those who are smaller … English World dictionary
Bully — Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n., Bully beef Bul ly beef (b[.u]l l[y^] b[=e]f ). [F. bouilli boiled meat, fr. bouillir to boil. See {Boil}, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the labels of canned beef.] Pickled or canned beef. [Webster… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
