meat safe

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meat safe

noun meat safes · meatsafe

A ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests. […] her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty, mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe) […]
obsolete, slang The stomach. “[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.”

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noun ventilated cupboard

Français	garde-manger
Deutsch	Speiseschrank, Fliegenschrank
Italiano	moscaiola

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@misc{meat_safe_2026,
  title = {meat safe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/meat%20safe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}