English Explanatory Dictionary

meat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
  2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  3. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.
  4. A type of food, a dish.
  5. A meal.
  6. Meal; flour.
  7. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  8. A penis.
  9. The best or most substantial part of something.
  10. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  11. A meathead.
  12. A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

Pronunciation

mēt /miːt/ /mit/ /miːʔ/ /miːh/ en-us-meat.ogg En-uk-meat.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-meat.wav

Word forms

meat 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”). 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.

Synonyms

meat flesh anaconda baloney pony bald-headed hermit banana birdie bobby boonga cack choad choda chode chopper cigar cock corey crank cucumber custard launcher D dick dicklet diddle diddly dingaling ding-a-ling ding-dong dinger dingle dingus dingy dink dinkle dipstick dirk disco stick dog bone dong donger Donkey Kong doodle dork down fire hose fuckpole gherkin hairy canary hammer hog hot dog hot rod hoo-hoo hooter it jade stalk jamoke jigger jimmy jock

Antonyms

drink

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

Translations

Bulgarian: същност Catalan: bessó Dutch: substantie Dutch: vlees op de botten Finnish: tavara Finnish: ydin French: viande Swahili: nyama
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