English Explanatory Dictionary

corn beef

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative form of corned beef.

Word forms

corn beef corn beefs corn-beef cornbeef

Etymology

Lexicalization of a reduced pronunciation of corned beef with regular deletion of -d before b. Compare ice cream and mash potato.

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