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meat
English
Etymology
From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“meat, food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matr, Gothic ???????????????? (mats).
A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which latter German Mett (“minced meat”). 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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?t, IPA(key): /mi?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mit/
- Rhymes: -i?t
- Homophones: meet, mete
Noun
meat (countable and uncountable, plural meats)
- (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
- (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]
- (now archaic, dialectal) Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink. [from 8th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, XXV:
- I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens:
- Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes […].
- 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny
- As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:
- The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference […].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, XXV:
- (now rare) A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
- (archaic) A meal. [from 9th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, ch. 8:
- And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew, ch. 8:
- (obsolete) Meal; flour.
- (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]
- 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady (page 12)
- She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
- 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady (page 12)
- (slang) A penis. [from 16th c.]
- 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538
- 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.
- 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54
- Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
- 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41
- Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
- 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538
- (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something. [from 16th c.]
- 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling
- […] it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
- 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling
- (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]
- (slang) A meathead.
- (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- 1949, Oceania, Vol.XX
- 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?"
- 1973, M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma
- Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."
- 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
- That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.
- 1949, Oceania, Vol.XX
Usage notes
- The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude fish and other seafood. For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves vegetarians also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is pescetarian).
- Traditionally, this meaning sometimes also excluded poultry.
Synonyms
- (animal flesh used as food): flesh; See also Thesaurus:meat
- (penis): see Thesaurus:penis
- (best or most substantial part of something): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
Antonyms
- drink
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: meti
Translations
Anagrams
- AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meta, meta-, tame, team
Latin
Verb
meat
- third-person singular present active indicative of me?
Romanian
Etymology
From French méat, from Latin meatus.
Noun
meat n (plural meaturi)
- meatus
Declension
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stovies
English
Etymology
From a blend of stoved (“stewed”) + tatties (“potatoes”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Source? Why not just from stove + the common Scottish -ie diminutive?”)
Noun
stovies pl (plural only)
- A traditional Scottish dish of stewed potatoes and onions with cold meat.
- 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,
- At home, after the fun of Dookin? for Apples was over we sat round a huge dish of delicious stovies, which had cooked very slowly on the top of the stove in a covered pan, with salt and pepper and knobs of butter. Threepenny bits and charms were hidden in the stovies.
- 2008, Alan Bews, One Boy?s Dinner Please, page 44,
- During the winter months my granny always made me stovies on a Saturday and she would spoon them on top of the hot pie and I would sit at a table in front of the fire eating contentedly and thinking about the films I had seen that morning. Stovies, as my grandmother made them, were potatoes and onions cut into pieces and cooked slowly in a pan with only a covering of water at the bottom of the pan, a tablespoonful of roast beef dripping and some salt and pepper. They were delicious.
- 2012, Jessie Macquarrie, Camus Calling, AuthorHouse UK, page 8,
- They accepted her offer graciously, not having a clue what ‘stovies’ might be. Meg soon explained that stovies was a traditional hearty scots meal made from potatoes, onions and left over meat served as a stew.
- 1975, Amy Stewart Fraser, Dae Ye Min? Langsyne?: A Pot-Pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood, page 203,
Anagrams
- Soviets, soviets, sovites
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