Etymology

bully beef

Today it means: Pickled or canned beef. Full definition →

French bouilli
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The story

  1. French · derived frombouilli“boiled”
  2. English todaybully beef

From a corruption of French bouilli (“boiled”) + beef.

Words from the same roots

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