beefy

C2+ Topic:Materials & Substances

US /ˈbifi/ UK /ˈbiːfi/ See IPA manual

adj

Meanings

1

adj
muscular, brawny, or substantially solid

A beefy bouncer stood guard at the door.

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Synonyms

1 adj · muscular, brawny, or... muscular brawny burly heftystockysolid robust

Opposites

scrawny slight weedy frail

Word family

Derived forms beefiness

Related forms beefbeefcake

Etymology

From beef + the adjectival suffix -y. Beef is from Old French boef ('ox'), from Latin bovem (bos, 'ox'), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷous ('cattle').

boef Old French bos Latin *gʷṓws Proto-Indo-European

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# beefy

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** ˈbifi
**IPA (UK):** ˈbiːfi

## Meanings
1. muscular, brawny, or substantially solid

## Examples
- A beefy bouncer stood guard at the door.

## Synonyms
- muscular
- brawny
- burly
- hefty
- stocky
- solid
- robust

## Antonyms
- scrawny
- slight
- weedy
- frail

## Derived Forms
- beefiness

## Related Forms
- beef
- beefcake

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: boef
- Root: bos
- Root: *gʷṓws

## Etymology
From beef + the adjectival suffix -y. Beef is from Old French boef ('ox'), from Latin bovem (bos, 'ox'), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷous ('cattle').

## AI Etymology
Beefy is from beef + the adjectival suffix -y. Beef is from Old French boef ('ox'), from Latin bovem (bos, 'ox'), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷous ('cattle'). Important recorded forms include boef (Old French), bos (Latin), and *gʷṓws (Proto-Indo-European). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers muscular, brawny, or substantially solid. The wider family includes derived forms such as beefiness and related words such as beef and beefcake.

## Topics
- Materials & Substances
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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