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meek

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/miːk/
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/miːk/ · /mik/

Definition of meek

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
    “Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.”
    “Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...”
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adj

  1. Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
    “Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.”
    “Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...”
  2. Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
    “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.”

verb

  1. (US)To tame; to break (a horse)

name

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.

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Etymology

From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare…

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From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मु॒ञ्चति॑ (muñcáti, “to release, let loose”).

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