Contextualizebeta

neatball

noun

Etymology

Blend of not + meatball, or in some cases, nut + meatball.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. compounded as meatball — “meat + ball”
  8. compounded as neatball — “not + meatball”

Definitions

  1. A vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for…

    A vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for meatballs.

    • Cook 125g spaghetti for each serving and serve with meatless "neatball" sauce, sprinkled with parmesan and shredded fresh basil.
    • Then come the neatballs ($3), nuts and seeds packed into a sphere, made to resemble meatballs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neatball. 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