white meat
nounEtymology
From Middle English whyte mete, wyttemet, equivalent to white + meat.
- inherited from whyte mete
Definitions
The breast portion of poultry.
Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red,…
Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and pork in some uses.
Dairy produce (occasionally including eggs).
- [W]hite meates, as milk, butter ⁊ chéeſe, which were woont to be accoũted of as one of the chiefe ſtayes thorowout the Iſland, are now reputed as foode appertinent only to the inferiour ſoꝛt, […]
- [I]n the very houſe or grange that I was borne in, my Mother and her maides made all the Whitmeate of ſeuenſcore kine and odde.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for white meat. 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