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Bully beef   /bˈʊli bif/   Listen
Bully beef

noun
1.
Beef cured or pickled in brine.  Synonyms: corn beef, corned beef.






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"Bully beef" Quotes from Famous Books



... toasted ox, a disgusting form of nourishment—and being besides unused to walking far, I was so utterly worn out on arrival that at first I cared for nothing but to lie down under the shade of a bush. But after the Field-Cornet had given us some tea and bully beef, and courteously bidden us to share the shelter of his tent, I felt equal to ...
— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... feeding. Haven't you ever wanted, when confronted with a lunch tongue, to hack out all the nice tonguey bits for yourself and leave the bully beef parts to be used for soup or some other domestic economy? Well, I hack out the tonguey bits every day. True, I usually have to eat the bully beef parts next meal, but—a la guerre comme a la guerre—I always might have been casualtied between meals, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 • Various

... was filled she steamed off to the base at Alexandria. As night came on we appeared to have a good hold of the place, and orders came for our bearer division to land. They took with them three days' "iron" rations, which consisted of a tin of bully beef, a bag of small biscuits, and some tea and sugar, dixies, a tent, medical comforts, and (for firewood) all the empty cases we could scrape up in the ship. Each squad had a set of splints, and every man carried a tourniquet ...
— Five Months at Anzac • Joseph Lievesley Beeston



Words linked to "Bully beef" :   corned beef, corn beef, boeuf, beef



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