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Corn beef   /kɔrn bif/   Listen
Corn beef

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






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"Corn beef" Quotes from Famous Books



... I have the blues," says Bilderbeck, who deals in shoes. "All day I loaf around my store, and folks don't come here any more; I reckon they have barely cash to buy cigars and corn beef hash, and when they've bought the grub to eat, they can't ...
— Rippling Rhymes • Walt Mason

... (continuing) Well, in with me to the house without a moment's delay, and what did I see but Richard Fennell sitting in an easy chair and smoking a cigar and looking as happy an' contented as a Protestant after a meal of corn beef and cabbage on a Friday. An' the house, the Lord save us!—one would think that 'twas struck be a cyclone. The only thing that remained whole was the chair that he sat in and the decanter that fed the broken glass from which he drank the poteen. "What brings you here?" ses ...
— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien



Words linked to "Corn beef" :   bully beef, boeuf, beef



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