Fresh vs Meat - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fresh and meat

is that fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood while meat is meatus.

As an adjective fresh

is newly produced or obtained or fresh can be rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* stale

Derived terms

* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

Noun

(freshes)

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:

They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

A stream or spring of fresh water.

* Shakespeare

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Etymology 2

1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Derived terms

* fresher * freshness * get fresh

Synonyms

* See also

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

meat

English

(wikipedia meat)

Noun

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:

I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

* , II.8:

And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :

Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.

* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),

As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference.

* :

And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel // and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:

And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

(label) The flesh of an animal used as food.

* 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:

While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

(label) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

(label) A penis.

* 1993 , Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies , page 538

He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

* 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big , page 54

Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

* 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys , page 41

Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

(label) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

(label) The best or most substantial part of something.

* 1577 , (Gerald Eades Bentley), The Arte of Angling

it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

(label) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

A meathead.

(label) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

* 1949 , Oceania , Vol.XX

When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

* 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

* 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity

Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.

* 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is

Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".

* 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.

Usage notes

The meaning "flesh of an animal used as food" is often understood to exclude (l) and other (l). For example, the rules for abstaining from meat in the Roman Catholic Church do not extend to fish; likewise, some people who consider themselves (l)s also eat fish (though the more precise term for such a person is (l)).

Synonyms

* (l) * See also * (penis) see

Antonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* beat the meat * dead meat * fresh meat * meat and two veg * meat draw * meat hook / meathook * meat pie * meat raffle * meat tray * meat wagon * meatball * meatface * meathead * meatman * meat safe * meaty * sweatmeat

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