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Definition of Beefiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beefiness
Literary usage of Beefiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry of Iron & Steel Making: And of Their Practical Uses by William Mattieu Williams (1890)
"What was this beefiness ? I have tested this question experimentally, and find
that it is due to ... The same beefiness is displayed in hard soldering with ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... reaction toward license after games, spasmodic excitement culminating in
excessive strain for body and mind, with alternations of reaction; " beefiness ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"Bulkiness and beefiness do not embody all virtues. It was long ago pointed out
that the cheapest sort of criticism is that which finds fault with an author ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"Bulkiness and beefiness do not embody all virtues. It was long ago pointed out
that the cheapest sort of criticism is that which finds fault with an author ..."
5. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1895)
"... as I guess;" nor yet is it a bluff English face; no beefiness ; regular
features — almost feminine in fineness of contour—with light beard ..."
6. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1895)
"And has not the charge of beefiness been brought much nearer home to us than that?
But about all the northern races there is something that is kindred to ..."
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