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MEEK
Definition of MEEK
adjective
Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मु॒ञ्चति॑ (muñcáti, “to release, let loose”).
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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.
MEEK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MEEK starts with M and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read EEKM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start MEEK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found MEEK?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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