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Bovril™

noun
🔊/ˈbɒvrɪl/
🔊/ˈbɑːvrɪl/
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  1. [uncountable] a dark substance made from beef, used in cooking and for making drinks
  2. [uncountable, countable] a hot drink made by mixing Bovril with waterTopics Drinksc2
    3. Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin bos, bov- ‘ox’, the second element perhaps from vril, an imaginary form of energy described in E. Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Coming Race (1871).