a. [f. BEEF sb. + -Y1.] Abounding in beef; resembling beef; fleshy; obese; stolid.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xvii. (1856), 129. One day he [the bear] is quite beefy and bearable.
1859. Smiles, Self-Help, 291. This dunce had a dull energy and a sort of beefy tenacity of purpose.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 66. 367. There are no beefy boys at these schools.
1862. Calverley, Verses & Tr., 48. The beefy market-place.
1876. Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., x. 134. Added the farmer in his beefy voice.
