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Definition of Bully beef
1. Noun. Beef cured or pickled in brine.
Definition of Bully beef
1. Noun. (British) pickled or canned beef. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bully Beef
Literary usage of Bully beef
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sapper Dorothy Lawrence, the Only English Woman Soldier, Late Royal by Dorothy Lawrence (1919)
"Readers, do not suppose that our troops live on bully beef without ... bully beef
tastes not such a bad thing, either. Over here we eat bully beef, ..."
2. Actions and Reactions in Russia by Robert Scotland Liddell (1918)
"The morning wash upon the slippery deck ; the morning mug of Danube water tea ;
the daily bully beef and hard ship's biscuits. ..."
3. With the Zionists in Gallipoli by John Henry Patterson (1916)
"... fed up with bully beef, he bored a hole in his tin, stuck a cartridge into
it, and hurled the novel projectile over the sandbag barrier among the Turks, ..."
4. The Victorious 77th Division (New York's Own) in the Argonne Fight by Arthur McKeogh (1919)
"Think of Jerry getting it—chocolate, cigarettes and bully beef! "On the morning
of October 8th, about I AM, I was dozing in my bunk hole when I heard a ..."
5. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"When there is absolutely nothing else to eat in the shape of meat, bully beef
may be regarded as a desirable stopgap. It varied much in quality, ..."
6. The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon (1918)
"Oh, bully beef! Oh, biscuits!" If there is one thing that has rung the gong of
popularity in France it is our English bully beef. ..."
7. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"It is all very well to say a man will eat anything when he is hungry, but you
can get so tired of bully-beef and biscuits and marmalade-jam that your ..."
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