meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēt
ipa: /miːt/
ipa: /mit/
note: Dublin
ipa: /miːʔ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /miːh/
rhymes: -iːt
homophone: meet
homophone: mete
Forms: form: meats
Etymology: From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Danish mad, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats).
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.
Senses: examples: text: A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
text: The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
text: In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 144:
text: While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.
ref: 2010 October 19, Andy Atkins, “Debate on meat-eating does not cut the mustard”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: flesh
hypernyms: food
antonyms: drink
glosses: The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
examples: text: The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
text: It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same.
ref: 2023, Seamus Bruner, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life:
text: Regularly eating red and processed meats in particular is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of data from 31 study cohorts published Tuesday in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
ref: 2024 August 20, Madeline Holcombe, “There is a link between the meat you eat and a chronic disease, according to new research”, in CNN:
glosses: A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
examples: text: I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 232:
text: Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes[…].
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.
ref: 1879, Silas Hocking, Her Benny:
text: The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference[…].
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 13:
glosses: Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
glosses: A type of food, a dish.
examples: text: And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:
glosses: A meal.
glosses: Meal; flour.
examples: text: The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
text: She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
ref: 1954, Cothburn O'Neal, The Dark Lady, page 12:
glosses: Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1993, Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies, page 538:
text: Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big, page 54:
text: Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
ref: 2011, Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys, page 41:
synonyms: word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: A penis.
examples: text: […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
ref: 1577, Gerald Eades Bentley, The Arte of Angling:
text: The editor called the new "novels" book-lengthers without the trivialities and slow development of the usual novel. "They have all the plot complications, meat and excitement that readers demand," he stated.
ref: 2007, Robert Kenneth Jones, The Shudder Pulps, page 6:
synonyms: word: crux
word: gist
word: bowels
word: brass tacks
word: core
word: crux
word: essence
word: gist
word: drift
word: guts
word: gravamen
word: heart
word: heart and soul
word: heartstring
word: heartstrings
word: inwardness
word: kernel
word: marrow
word: meat
word: moral of the story
word: nitty-gritty
word: nub
word: nuts and bolts
word: pith
word: punctum saliens
word: quintessence
word: soul
word: spirit
word: stuff
word: substance
word: tenor
glosses: The best or most substantial part of something.
examples: text: He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
examples: text: Throw it in here, meat.
glosses: A meathead.
examples: text: 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?"
ref: 1949, Vol.XX, Oceania:
text: 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."
ref: 1973, M. Fennel, A. Grey, Nucoorilma:
text: Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
ref: 1977, A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity:
text: Our family[…]usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
ref: 1992, P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is:
text: 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Synonyms: word: meat
word: flesh
Hypernyms: word: food
Hyponyms: word: beef
word: cabrito
word: calamari
word: chevon
word: escargot
word: mutton
word: pork
word: poussin
word: squab
word: veal
word: venison
word: antelope
word: bison
word: deer
word: lamb
word: rabbit
word: poultry
word: chicken
word: duck
word: goose
word: pheasant
word: quail
word: turkey
word: frog
word: turtle
word: fish
word: carp
word: catfish
word: cod
word: eel
word: halibut
word: herring
word: mackerel
word: salmon
word: sole
word: swordfish
word: tilapia
word: trout
word: shellfish
word: crab
word: lobster
word: shrimp
Derived terms: advanced meat recovery
all garnish and no meat
all motion and no meat
antimeat
Australian as a meat pie
bakemeat
batmeat
bear meat
beat one's meat
beat the meat
bushmeat
bush meat
camel meat
cat meat
catmeat
cat's meat
chew the meat and spit out the bones
chicken's-meat
clean meat
cockmeat
coconut meat
cold meat
cold meat box
cold meat cart
cold meat train
commodity meat
cow meat
crab meat
crabmeat
cuckoo's meat
cultured meat
dark meat
dead meat
deer meat
deli meat
dog meat
don't get your meat where you get your bread
double-dead meat
duckmeat
duck's-meat
ducksmeat
easy meat
fancy meat
fleshmeat
forcemeat
fragrant meat
frankenmeat
fresh meat
fuckmeat
fuck-meat
girlmeat
goatmeat
ground meat
horsemeat
I don't eat meat
inmeat
inmeats
kangaroo meat
light meat
lone-star-tick meat allergy
loose-meat sandwich
luncheon meat
lunch meat
mad as a meat axe
make meat
mammalian meat allergy
man-meat
meat and potatoes
meat-and-potatoes
meat and three
meat and two veg
meat ant
meatarian
meat assault
meatatarian
meat ax
meat axe
meatbag
meatball
meat bee
meat biscuit
meatbot
meat box
meatcake
meatcase
meat-chopper
meat crayon
meat curtains
meat dealer
meat diaper
meat draw
meat eater
meat-eater
meateater
meat-eating
meated
meatface
meatfest
meat flaps
meat floss
meatfluencer
meat fly
meatfork
meatful
meat glue
meatgrinder
meat grinder
meathead
meatheaded
meat hook
meathook
meat house
meatilicious
meat injection
meat in the room
meatish
meat jelly
meat jun
meatless
meatlike
meatloaf
meat loaf
meat lovers'
meatman
meat market
meatness
meat offering
meat on one's bones
meat on the bones
meatpacker
meatpacking
meat pad
meat pie
meat-pie
meatpole
meat puppet
meatpuppet
meat rack
meat raffle
meat robot
meat rod
meat safe
meat-safe
meat-safe cot
meat sauce
meat scepter
meat sceptre
meat shield
meatshot
meat shot
meat-space
meatspace
meat space
meat stick
meatsuit
meat sweats
meat tea
meat thermometer
meat ticket
meat tray
meat wagon
meat-wagon
meatware
meat wool
meatworker
meatworks
meaty
meatza
mechanically separated meat
meet-meat merger
milk before meat
minced meat
mock meat
monkey meat
more sauce than meat
mystery meat
mystery meat navigation
Natchitoches meat pie
nonmeat
noonmeat
nutmeat
one man's meat is another man's poison
piece of meat
pigmeat
plates of meat
rapemeat
red meat
red meat allergy
red meat radish
roast-meat clothes
room meat
rose meat
salt meat
sausage meat
sharkmeat
sheepmeat
sidemeat
smoked meat
smoke meat
snakemeat
sousemeat
soymeat
spoonmeat
spoon-meat
star meat
sweater meat
sweatmeat
sweetmeat
synthetic meat
the other white meat
think meat
tick-induced meat allergy
tick meat allergy
tiger meat
variety meat
whalemeat
wheat meat
white meat
wildmeat
Related terms: word: bushmeat
word: :Category:Meats
word: tofurkey