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Beef-brained. World English Historical Dictionary

Beef-brained. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Beef-brained or beef-witted, adj. phr. (common).—Doltish; obtuse; thickheaded.

1   1594.  NASHE, The Terrors of the Night [GROSART, Works, III. 257]. Liues there anie such slowe yce-braind BEEFE-WITTED gull.

2   1606.  SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, ii. 1. 14. Thou mongrel BEEF-WITTED lord.

3   1627.  FELTHAM, Resolves, I. ix. (1647), 28. A BEEFE-BRAINED fellow that hath only impudence enough to shew himself a foole.

4   1863.  Reader, 22 Aug. This British bull-neckedness, this British BEEF-WITTEDNESS.

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