English-Thai Dictionary
beefeater
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
BEEFEATER
Beef "eat `er, n. Etym: [Beef + eater; prob. one who eats another's beef, as his servant. Cf. AS. hlaf servant, properly a loaf eater. ]
1. One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
2. One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
New American Oxford Dictionary
beefeater
beef eat er |ˈbēfˌētər ˈbifˌidər | ▶noun a Yeoman Warder or Yeoman of the Guard in the Tower of London. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (originally a derogatory term for a well-fed servant ): the current sense dates from the late 17th cent.
Oxford Dictionary
beefeater
beef |eat ¦er |ˈbiːfiːtə | ▶noun a Yeoman Warder or Yeoman of the Guard in the Tower of London. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (originally a derogatory term for a well-fed servant ): the current sense dates from the late 17th cent.
Duden Dictionary
Beefeater
Beef ea ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |ˈbiːf |iːtɐ |englisch beefeater, eigentlich = Rindfleischesser, nach den großen Fleischrationen, die die Garde im 17. Jahrhundert erhielt königliche Leibwache im Londoner Tower
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
beefeater
b é ef è ater 名詞 C 1 〖しばしばB -〗(英国王の )護衛兵 (Yeoman of the Guard ), ロンドン塔の守衛 .2 ｟米俗 ｠英国人 .3 牛肉を食べる人, 血色がよくたくましい人 .
The Wordsmith Dictionary