资料来源 : pyDict
吃牛肉者,大力士,守卫
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Beefeater \Beef"eat`er\, n. [Beef + eater; prob. one who eats
another's beef, as his servant. Cf. AS. hl[=a]f?ta servant,
properly a loaf eater.]
1. One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
2. One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
3. (Zo["o]l.) An African bird of the genus {Buphaga}, which
feeds on the larv[ae] of botflies hatched under the skin
of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
资料来源 : WordNet®
beefeater
n : officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
[syn: {yeoman}, {yeoman of the guard}]