bef

• IPA^(key): /bɛf/
• Hyphenation: bef
• Rhymes: -ɛf

From Middle Dutch beffe (“cap, collar”), from Old French biffe. Further origin uncertain. Compare German Beffchen.

bef f (plural beffen, diminutive befje n)

1. (archaic) collar
2. an ornamental pair of bands worn hanging over the chest, notably as part of formal dress by magistrates, professors and certain Catholic and Protestant clergy
3. by analogy, any of certain other similar objects
4. a patch on the throat or chest of a different color on cats or dogs
5. (slang) the vulva

bef f (plural beffen, diminutive befje n)

1. a nickname for an unspecified small Dutch coin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bef

1. inflection of beffen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From French boeuf.

bef

1. bull
2. beef

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

• beef, bouf, beof, buf, boef, bief, beffe, befe

From Anglo-Norman beof, Old French buef; ultimately from Latin bovem, accusative of bōs. Doublet of cou.

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /bøːf/
• IPA^(key): /beːf/

bef (uncountable)

1. beef; cow flesh or meat
2. A bovine or its carcass

• English: beef (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: beef

• “bẹ̄f, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

From French boeuf.

bef

1. bull
2. beef

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key): /bef/

bef (nominative plural befs)

1. alcove