beefy
pronunciation
How to pronounce beefy in British English:
UK [ˈbi:fi]
How to pronounce beefy in American English:
US [ˈbifi]
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- Adjective:
- muscular and heavily built
Word Origin
- beefy (adj.)
- "brawny," 1743, from beef (n.) in colloquial extended sense "human muscle" + -y (2). Related: Beefiness.
Example
- 1. The region 's ubiquitous infrastructure projects need beefy backers .
- 2. Men utterly dominate such beefy industries as transport and mining .
- 3. China , meanwhile , is a beefy and increasingly busy trading partner .
- 4. Men prefer their cars beefy or fast , while women go for lower price tags and higher miles per gallon , according to a survey released on thursday .
- 5. Even the shuttle will live on , in some sense , since the space launch system-the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system-will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology .