meat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: meats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.
The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter.
In many parts of the world, shark meat is an acceptable and desirable form of protein.
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.
gloss: A food designed to replicate its taste and texture (such as plant-based meat).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.
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.
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.
gloss: Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
dialectal
uncountable
examples: meat and drink
I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate. I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.
And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat.
Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes[…].
As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat.
The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference[…].
gloss: A type of food, a dish.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A meal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.
gloss: Meal; flour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.
She took her spoon and stirred the melted butter into the yellow meat of the yam.
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: 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.
Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.
Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,
gloss: The best or most substantial part of something.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.
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.
gloss: The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He hit it right on the meat of the bat.
gloss: A meathead.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Throw it in here, meat.
gloss: A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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?"
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."
Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat" (totem) of another group.
Our family[…]usually married the red kangaroo "meat".
1993, J. Janson, Gunjies
That’s a beautiful goanna. […]. He’s my meat, can’t eat him.
Synonyms: meat
flesh
Related words: bushmeat
:Category:Meats
tofurkey
Derived words: 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
camp meat
catmeat
cat meat
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
crabmeat
crab meat
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
meat hand
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 off
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
meatspace
meat-space
meat space
meat stick
meatsuit
meat sweats
meat syringe
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
processed 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: същност
roman: sǎštnost
lang: Catalan
word: bessó
lang: Dutch
word: substantie
lang: Dutch
word: vlees op de botten
lang: Finnish
word: tavara
lang: Finnish
word: ydin
lang: French
word: viande
lang: Swahili
word: nyama