meat
Meanings
Plural: meats
Noun
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
- A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
- A type of food, a dish.
- A meal.
- Meal; flour.
- Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- A penis.
- The best or most substantial part of something.
- The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- A meathead.
- A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
Origin / 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”). Cognate with West Frisian mete, Old Saxon meti, Old High German maz (“food”), Icelandic matur, Swedish mat, Danish mad, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats).
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.
Synonyms
anaconda, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, bowels, brass tacks, cack, center, centre, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, colloquial, core, corey, crank, crux, cucumber, custard launcher, D, deets, details, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, drift, essence, fire hose, flesh, fuckpole, gherkin, gist, gravamen, guts, hairy canary, hammer, heart, heart and soul, heartstring, heartstrings, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, inwardness, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, John Thomas, johnson, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kernel, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, marrow, Master John Goodfellow, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, moral of the story, nature's scythe, nitty-gritty, nob, nub, nuts and bolts, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pith, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, punctum saliens, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, quintessence, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, soul, spirit, spitstick, stem, stretcher, stuff, substance, sucker, sum, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, tenor, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, Yiddish), ying-yang
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
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