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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch biest, from Old Dutch *biest, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.
Cognate with Old Saxon biost, Middle Low German bêst, German Low German Biest, Old High German biost, Middle High German biest, German Biest, Old Frisian *biāst, North Frisian bjārst, bjüst, Saterland Frisian Biaost, West Frisian bjist, Old English bēost, English beest.
More distantly related to Old High German biastr, Palatine German Briester, Switzerland German Briešt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]biest f (uncountable)
- beest, colostrum, beestings
- Synonym: biestmelk
- Het pasgeboren kalf heeft de biest al op. ― The newborn calf has already finished drinking the beestings.
- 1768, Noël M. Chomel, Algemeen huishoudelijk-, natuur-, zedekundig- en konst-woordenboek, page 158:
- Deeze eerste Biest …, als meede de tweede, word altoos aan het jong geworpen kalf te drinken gegeven; dog de derde en vierde, enz. veel door de huislieden gebruikt, om met bijvoeging van meel, enz. pannekoeken en zelfs wafelen van te bakken…
- These first beestings…, as well as the second, are always given to the newborn calf to drink; the third and fourth beestings etc., however, are heavily used by the farmers, with the addition of dough etc., to bake pancakes and even waffles…
- 1808, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, Natuurlyke historie van Holland, vol. 7, publ. P. H. Trap, page 164.
- Deze eerste melk is doorgaans … vettiger dan de gewone melk, ook walgachtig en geilzoet van smaak, en wordt biest genoemd…
- This first milk is generally … greasier than normal milk, as well as disgusting and sickeningly sweet in taste, and it is called beest…
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