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Meek vs Meef - What's the difference?

meek | meef |

As an adjective meek

is humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.

As a verb meek

is to tame; to break.

As an interjection meef is

a cry of strangled surprise or confusion.

meek

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
  • * 1848:
    • Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
  • * "Blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5)
  • Submissive, dispirited.
  • * 1920: , Main Street [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=432765822&tag=Lewis,+Sinclair:+Main+Street,+1920&query=+meek&id=LewMain]
    • What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) (of horses) To .

    • meef

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • 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]
    • Also, I'd like NOMIC rules. Someone said they had already been posted here, but I don't see them. Meef.
  • * 1999, Adrian Kleinbergen, in alt.nosebeeping [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.nosebeeping/msg/97636dbad3fe4410?dmode=source&hl=en]
    • Whenever I beep my wife's nose, she says "meef! "
  • * 2009, Derek Scott
    • Hans, your wedding cake will look lovely with a touch of "meef! "

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