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horsemeat

noun

Etymology

From horse + meat.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat”
  2. inherited from *matiz✻ — “food”
  3. inherited from *mati✻
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. formed as horsemeat — “horse + meat”

Definitions

  1. The meat from a horse.

    • In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for horsemeat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA