BEEF EATER

  

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BEEF EATER

Specialty Definition: BEEF EATER

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Slang in 1811

BEEF EATER. A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupboard, thence called Bouffetiers, since corrupted to Beef Eaters. Others suppose they obtained this name from the size of their persons, and the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEEF EATER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

beef eater

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BEEF EATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: beefeater.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-f-r-t"

-2 letters: freebee.

-3 letters: afreet, beater, befret, berate, bereft, feater, rebate.

-4 letters: after, arete, beret, eater, taber.

-5 letters: abet, bare, barf, bate, bear, beat, beef, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feet, fere, feta, fete, frae, frat, free, fret, raft, rate, reef, reft, rete, tare, tear, tree, tref.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-f-r-t"
 

+1 letter: beefeaters.

 

+4 letters: featherbedded.

 

+5 letters: benefactresses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BEEF EATER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 45 46      45 41 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01000101 01000110 00100000 01000101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#69 &#70 &#32 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0045 0046      0045 0041 0054 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3639394023935543952

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