meat
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meat
- /miːt/
- /mit/ US
- [mit̚] US
- [miːʔ]
Sounds like meet, mete · Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der.
Proto-Germanic *matiz
Proto-West Germanic *mati
Old English mete
Middle English mete
English meat
Inherited from Middle English mete (“food”), from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet; grease, fat”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian Miit (“meat”), Danish mad (“food”), Faroese and Icelandic matur (“food, meal”), Norn mader (“food”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mat (“food”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats, “food”).
A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive, respectively. Compare also Old Irish mess (“animal feed”) and Welsh mes (“acorns”), English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals”), which are probably from the same root.
noun meats
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food. A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
- A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
- Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. meat and drink
- A type of food, a dish.
- A meal. And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
- Meal; flour.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
- A penis. He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.
- The best or most substantial part of something. […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
- A meathead. Throw it in here, meat.
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it. When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"
