meen.
/miː/, U.S. /mi/ Chinese-style noodles. Also in compounds with a word denoting the other ingredients or method of cooking: a Chinese dish popular esp. in Malaysia and Singapore, consisting of noodles with various other ingredients. Cf. mien n.2, chow mein n.
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kreplach1892
chow mein1903
pancit1912
bihon1915
mee1935
japchae1955
yakisoba1957
char kway teow1973
1935 A. Dixon Singapore Patrol xiii. 107 We were confronted by a large dish piled with a startling mixture of spaghetti, bamboo shoots, sliced prawns, and tiny cubes of pork... Its name..was mee. Mee is a favourite dish of the Chinese, and is on sale at all hours of the day and night.
1955 P. Anderson Snake Wine ii. vi. 163 A Chinese cook tosses a handful of bean-sprouts, a bundle of pale yellow mee.
1963 J. Kirkup Tropic Temper viii. 82 I had some nice fried mee at a Chinese stall.
1992 Financial Sunday Express (New Delhi) 13 Sept. 13/3 From Malaysia you could go heavy on the noodles with Spiced Mee Hon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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