corned beef
corned beef · corned beefs
солонина, тушёнка
Corned Beef, Cornedbeef, gepökeltes Rindfleisch, Kraftfleisch
Smoke-cured and salted beefSmoke-cured and salted beef.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)Smoke-cured and salted beef.
Corned Beef, Cornedbeef, Corned beef
солони́наsolonína
beef cured or pickled in brine
(countable, uncountable)Beef conserved in tins (cans).
Büchsenfleisch
тушёнкаtušónka
(UK, countable, historical, slang, uncountable)The chief officer of a prison.
Translations
6 languagesРусский
By meaning 2
smoke-cured and salted beef:
beef conserved in tins:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
smoke-cured and salted beef:
beef conserved in tins:
Origin
From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming sFrom corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
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Forms
plural: corned beefsSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- beef cured or pickled in brine:bully beefcorn beef
Word family
5 related wordsDerivedcornsilog
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable