white meat
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White meat — White White (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. {Whiter} (hw[imac]t [ e]r); superl. {Whitest}.] [OE. whit, AS. hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[=i]t, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. w[=i]z, hw[=i]z, Icel. hv[=i]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
white meat — noun uncount 1. ) meat such as chicken or PORK that is pale after you have cooked it. Meat that is dark after cooking is called red meat. 2. ) meat from the top part of a bird, for example its wing or its breast. Meat from the lower part is… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
white meat — meat of poultry, pigs, etc., as opposed to red meat, is recorded from 1752; earlier it meant foods prepared from milk (early 15c.). Black slang sense of white women as sex partners is from 1920s … Etymology dictionary
white meat — n. 1. any light colored meat, as veal, pork, the breast of poultry, etc. 2. [ME hwitmete < OE: see WHITE & MEAT] Now Dial. cheese, butter, or some other dairy product … English World dictionary
white meat — white meats N UNCOUNT: also N in pl White meat is meat such as chicken and pork, which is pale in colour after it has been cooked … English dictionary
white meat — n [U] the pale coloured meat from the breast, wings etc of a cooked chicken, ↑turkey, or other bird →↑redmeat … Dictionary of contemporary English
white meat — ► NOUN ▪ pale meat such as poultry, veal, and rabbit … English terms dictionary
White meat — Roast chicken, the most commonly eaten white meat White meat or light meat refers to the lighter colored meat of poultry as contrasted with dark meat. In a more general sense, white meat may also refer to any lighter colored meat, as contrasted… … Wikipedia
white meat — 1. the breast of cooked poultry As with dark meat1, now standard English, with Victorian prudery forgotten. 2. a white woman viewed sexually The converse of dark meat2, but also used of the aspirations of a white man living among… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
white meat — a commercial measure of fish flesh colour, e.g. canned tuna is white meat or white tuna when it has a diffused luminous reflectance of not less than 33.7% of that of magnesium oxide when measured by a prescribed method. Equivalent to 6.3 Munsell… … Dictionary of ichthyology
white-meat tuna — noun Etymology: white meat : albacore; also : the canned flesh of this fish … Useful english dictionary
