Meef vs Meed - What's the difference?
meef | meed |
A cry of strangled surprise or confusion.
* 1994, Don Blaheta, in rec.games.abstract [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.abstract/msg/507f9cb8139f0115?dmode=source&hl=en]
* 1999, Adrian Kleinbergen, in alt.nosebeeping [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.nosebeeping/msg/97636dbad3fe4410?dmode=source&hl=en]
* 2009, Derek Scott
A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
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A gift; bribe.
(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
As an interjection meef
is a cry of strangled surprise or confusion.As a noun meed is
a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.As a verb meed is
to reward; bribe.meef
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Also, I'd like NOMIC rules. Someone said they had already been posted here, but I don't see them. Meef.
- Whenever I beep my wife's nose, she says "meef! "
- Hans, your wedding cake will look lovely with a touch of "meef! "
Anagrams
*meed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For well she wist, as true it was indeed, / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserued as his duefull meed , / Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
- My meed hath got me fame.