bœuf

• boeuf (nonstandard)

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).

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.[1]

• IPA^(key): /bœf/

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• Rhymes: -œf

bœuf m (plural bœufs)

1. ox
2. bullock, steer
3. beef
4. (music) jam session

   faire un bœuf ― to have a jam session

5. (Quebec, slang, derogatory) a police officer; a pig
   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 79:

     "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."

• Haitian Creole: bèf

• “bœuf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French buef, boef, from Latin bos, bovem.

bœuf m (plural bœufs)

1. ox (animal)