Noun

(en noun)

The day immediately before today; one day ago.

* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)

, title= , passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}

The (recent) past, often disparaging.

* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5

All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

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.