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Dutch
Etymology
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
Noun
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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