meatlikeadj.
/ˈmiːtlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈmitˌlaɪk/ 1. Scottish. Having the appearance of being well-fed. Chiefly in meat-like and cloth-like: well-fed and well-dressed.
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1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence i. 33 The poor Wilderness-Wanderers have look'd as Meat-like and Cloath-like as others that sat at Ease in their Houses.
1762 R. Forbes Jrnls. Episcopal Visitations (1886) 216 You see I am meat-like and cloath-like, as we say in Scotland.
1831 Fife Herald 2 June in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) The school children, a corps of young reformers, whose meat-like and claith-like appearance did honour both to their parents and the masters of the establishment.
1873 T. Watson Poems 123 The puir laddie is neither fed, clad, nor schuled. He is neither meat-like, nor claith-like.
1912 H. J. C. Clippings from Clayboddie (1921) 56 So there he is, meatlike and claithlike, riding in his first class carriage.
2. Resembling or suggestive of meat.
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1853 H. Melville Bartleby ii, in Putnam's Monthly Mag. Dec. 613/2 A broad meat-like man, in an apron, accosted me.
1859 All Year Round 3 Sept. 439/2 The savoury, meat-like taste [of some fungi].
1943 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VI. 34/1 The glutamates..have a characteristic meat-like flavour.
1987 C. Ozick Messiah of Stockholm (1988) 89 Or else it was his seaweedy merman's odor, mixed with the meatlike scorch of tobacco, strong and salty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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