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meek
English
Etymology
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *m?kaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”).
Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare also Old English sm?gan (“to slide, slip”), Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ?mung? (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (m??ati, “to chase”), Ancient Greek ???????? (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit ??????? (muñcati, “to release, let loose”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mi?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mik/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Adjective
meek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)
- Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
- Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
- Submissive, dispirited.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
- What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:humble
Derived terms
- meekly
- meekness
Translations
Verb
meek (third-person singular simple present meeks, present participle meeking, simple past and past participle meeked)
- (US) (of horses) To tame; to break.
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myek
English
Alternative forms
- mak (Mackem)
- make (Standard English)
Pronunciation
- (Geordie) IPA(key): /me?k/
Verb
myek (third-person singular simple present myeks, present participle myekin, simple past and past participle made)
- (Tyneside, dialectal) To make.
- Will ye myek is a stotty for me bait pet?
References
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
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