[f. BEEFY a. + -NESS.] Beefy quality; transf. fleshy development.
1859. Smiles, Self-Help, 160. It is … the one pull more of the oar that proves the beefiness of the fellow, as Oxford men say.
1882. ‘Annie Thomas,’ Allerton Towers, III. ix. 164. I like to have my animal … dressed in such a way that its original beefiness or muttoniness is completely concealed.
