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meat

noun
/miːt//mit/US

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.

  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

Definitions

  1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food, or a food designed to…

    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).

    • 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.

  2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

    • 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.

  3. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. A type of food, a dish.

    2. A meal.

      • And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

    3. Meal

      Meal; flour.

    4. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

      • 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.

    5. A penis.

      • 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,

    6. The best or most substantial part of something.

      • […]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.

    7. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

      • He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

    8. A meathead.

      • Throw it in here, meat.

    9. A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

      • 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.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at meat

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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