corned beef

See also: Corned Beef and corned-beef

English

Alternative forms

• corn beef, corn-beef, cornbeef
• corned-beef

Etymology

From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.

Pronunciation

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Noun

corned beef (countable and uncountable, plural corned beefs)

1. Smoke-cured and salted beef.
2. Beef conserved in tins (cans).
3. (UK, prison slang, historical) The chief officer of a prison.
   • 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:

     Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.

Translations

smoke-cured and salted beef

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鹹牛肉／咸牛肉 (haam⁴ ngau⁴ juk⁶)

  Mandarin: 醃牛肉／腌牛肉 (zh) (yānniúròu)

• Estonian: suitsuliha
• Finnish: savunauta
• French: corned-beef (fr) m
• German: Corned Beef (de) n, Cornedbeef n, Corned beef n (old spelling), gepökeltes Rindfleisch n, Kraftfleisch n (regional), Rinderpökelfleisch n
• Greek: παστό βοδινό n (pastó vodinó)
• Indonesian: kornet (id)
• Irish: mairteoil shaillte f, mairteoil leasaithe f
• Japanese: コーンビーフ (kōnbīfu)
• Korean: 콘비프 (konbipeu), 콘드 비프 (kondeu bipeu)
• Maori: pīwhi tote
• Polish: peklowana wołowina f
• Portuguese: salgado (pt) m, bife salgado m
• Russian: солони́на (ru) f (solonína)
• Sundanese: kornét
• Vietnamese: thịt bò muối
• Volapük: salodabubamit
• Yiddish: פּעקלפֿלייש n (peklfleysh)

beef conserved in tins

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罐裝牛肉／罐装牛肉 (guànzhuāng niúròu)

• Estonian: konservliha
• Finnish: säilykenauta, nötkötti (fi)
• German: Büchsenfleisch (de) n
• Greek: παστό βοδινό n (pastó vodinó)
• Indonesian: kornet (id)
• Irish: mairteoil shaillte f
• Japanese: コンビーフ (kōnbīfu)
• Korean: 콘비프 (konbipeu), 콘드 비프 (kondeu bipeu)
• Maltese: bulibif, laħam tal-landi pl
• Maori: pīwhi tini
• Portuguese: bife enlatado m
• Russian: тушёнка (ru) f (tušónka) (canned stewed meat, tushonka)
• Spanish: carne en conserva f
• Sundanese: kornét

See also

• bully beef
• pastrami
• smoked meat
• salt beef

Further reading

• corned beef on Wikipedia.Wikipedia