beeves
SayBEEVZ/bivz/UK/biːvz/
- 1Plural of beef. Archaic or humorous, used only for cattle.
The drovers herded several hundred beeves along the dusty trail.
"I heard Texas was horses and beeves."
2004, Ginger Hanson, Ransom's BrideNote
An old plural that turns f to v, the way leaf does, and it counts live animals rather than meat. The King James Bible of 1611 tallies beeves beside asses and sheep, and in Swift's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (1726) six beeves and forty sheep arrive every morning. Today it sounds archaic or deliberately playful. In plain modern prose, cattle or head of cattle does the counting.
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