meat
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
meat/miːt/
▶noun
- 1 the flesh of an animal (especially a mammal) as food.
■ N. Amer. the edible part of fruits, nuts, or eggs.
■ (the meat of) the essence or chief part of.
- 2 archaic food of any kind.
– phrases
be meat and drink to Brit.
meat and potatoes N. Amer. ordinary but fundamental things.
be meat and drink to Brit.
- 1 be a source of great pleasure to.
- 2 be a routine matter for.
meat and potatoes N. Amer. ordinary but fundamental things.
– derivatives
meatless adjective.
meatless adjective.
– origin OE mete ‘food’ or ‘article of food’, of Gmc origin.
'meat' also found in these Oxford entries:
aspic
- bacon
- ballotine
- barbecue
- bard
- baste
- beef
- best end
- biltong
- biriani
- blade
- blanquette
- blowfly
- bobotie
- bone
- bouilli
- bouillon
- braai
- braaivleis
- brawn
- breast
- bridie
- brisket
- brochette
- broil
- broiler
- broth
- buccaneer
- butcher
- butcher's meat
- butterfly
- cabbage roll
- cannelloni
- cappelletti
- carbonnade
- carcass
- carpaccio
- carve
- carver
- cassoulet
- cattle
- charbroil
- chargrill
- chicken
- chilli con carne
- chine
- cholent
- chop
- chop suey
- chow mein
