Noun: bœuf
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bœuf |
| Plural m | bœufs |
Sample Sentences
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faire un bœuf (to have a jam session)
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"T'as peut-être fait quelque chose de croche. Si toi tu le sais pas, les bœufs le savent, eux." ("Maybe you did something wrong. Even if you don't know, the pigs will.") [1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 79:]
Nouns inflected like bœuf
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French bœuf, from Old French buef, boef, from Latin bovem (“ox”), from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (compare English cow).
2. The music sense derives from the expression “faire un Bœuf”, after the Parisian cabaret-bar Le Bœuf sur le toit where jam sessions were held. See: Latin Nouns '
bōs', English Nouns '
cow'.
Verbs referencing "bœuf"
English Nouns
boeuf, Latvian Nouns
govs, Danish Nouns
bøf.
Translations
jam, music: to improvise as a group