Meat Definition
The flesh of a person.
Other Word Forms of Meat
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Meat
- meat and potatoes
- one's meat
Origin of Meat
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From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“meat, food"), from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food"), from Proto-Indo-European *mad- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat"). Cognate with Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food"), Old Icelandic matr, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats), from a Proto-Germanic *matiz. A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork"), whence Modern Low German Mett (“minced meat") (whence 16th c. German Mettwurst (“a kind of sausage"))
From Wiktionary
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Old Irish mess (“animal feed") and Welsh mes (“acorns"), compare English mast (“fodder for swine and other animals"), are probably from the same root.
From Wiktionary
Middle English mete from Old English food
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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