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MEAT
Definition of MEAT
noun
The flesh (muscle tissue) of a killed animal used as food.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English mete (“food”), from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet; grease, fat”). Cognate with North Frisian Miit (“meat”), Danish mad (“food”), Faroese and Icelandic matur (“food, meal”), Norn mader (“food”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mat (“food”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats, “food”). 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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,595)
How it is built
Same root, MEAT · 9 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic, Irish, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Norwegian, Swedish, Welsh.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MEAT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found MEAT?
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