BEEFY
What does "BEEFY" mean?
Muscular, solid, and powerfully built.
Meanings
- Heavily muscled, thickset, or burly. Two beefy bouncers stood at the club's entrance. informal
- Substantial, powerful, or impressively capable, of a machine or component. The truck has a beefy engine that hauls without complaint. informal
- Tasting strongly of beef. The stew had a rich, beefy broth.
Word origin
From 'beef' plus '-y'; 'beef' comes through Old French 'boef' from Latin 'bos' (ox), the same root as 'bovine' - so a 'beefy' person is, etymologically, ox-like.
Remember it
BEEFY = built like BEEF, with the muscle and the -Y to match; double-E for the double effort it took.
A little poem
He fills the doorway like a closing door -
all shoulder, no opinion, and no more.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why was the bodybuilder also a great chef? Everything he made turned out beefy.
What it teaches
Bulk impresses the eye, but doorways and arguments are both held open by something quieter than size.
Quick facts
What does BEEFY mean?
Muscular, solid, and powerfully built.
Is BEEFY a valid word?
Yes — BEEFY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BEEFY?
BEEFY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BEEFY come from?
From 'beef' plus '-y'; 'beef' comes through Old French 'boef' from Latin 'bos' (ox), the same root as 'bovine' - so a 'beefy' person is, etymologically, ox-like.
What can BEEFY teach us?
Bulk impresses the eye, but doorways and arguments are both held open by something quieter than size.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.