beefeater

beef +‎ eater

beefeater (plural beefeaters)

1. An African bird of the genus Buphagus, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc.
2. (obsolete) One who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Beefeater
   • 1981 August 3, Marie Brenner, “The Wedding of the Century”, in New York Magazine, page 30:

     It was assumed that the queen, as was her custom, would take the middle path, where the crowd was densest. No velvet rope was needed to contain it. No beefeaters needed pikes to hold the unruly back. Brixton aside, the rule of civility in England still holds.

4. (historical) A kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).

• Oxpecker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Buphagus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Buphagus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• beefeater in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

beefeater m (plural beefeaters)

1. Beefeater