[? f. BULL, or corruption of F. bouilli boiled meat.] Pickled or tinned beef. Also as bully beef.
1883. Clark Russell, in Longm. Mag., III. 2. I have been shipmates with a man who grew white-haired at thirty on soup and bully.
1884. J. Macdonald in 19th Cent., June, 1002. The colonel … was … quietly consuming … his luncheon of ‘bully beef’ and whiskey.
