meat

Definitions


[miːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the flesh of an animal, typically a mammal or bird, as food (the flesh of domestic fowls is sometimes distinguished as poultry)
(e.g: pieces of meat)

- food of any kind


Phrases:
- be meat and drink to
- easy meat
- meat and potatoes
- meat and two veg
- one man's meat is another man's poison

Origin:
Old English mete ‘food’ or ‘article of food’ (as in sweetmeat), of Germanic origin




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