meek
see also: Meek
Etymology
Meek
Proper noun
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see also: Meek
Etymology
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, unknown origin, likely related to Old English smēag and smūgan and possibly a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr, from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk-.
Cognate with Swedish - and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk, Norwegian Bokmål myk, and Danish myg, Dutch muik, dialectal German mauch, Mauche. Compare as well Welsh mwyth, Latin ēmungō, Tocharian A muk-, Lithuanian mùkti, Church Slavic мъчати, Ancient Greek μύσσομαι, Sanskrit मुञ्चति.
Pronunciation Adjectivemeek (comparative meeker, superlative meekest)
- Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 8”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
- Submissive, dispirited.
- 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009081751/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w read here]
- See also Thesaurus:humble
- French: humble, modeste
- German: sanftmütig, bescheiden, zaghaft, zurückhaltend, fromm, demütig, sanft, hold, lammfromm, moderat
- Italian: modesto, timido, introverso, schivo, pavido
- Portuguese: modesto
- Russian: кро́ткий
- Spanish: modesto
- French: soumis, faible
- German: unterwürfig, kleinlaut, widerstandslos, duldsam, ergeben, gottergeben
- Italian: rassegnato, remissivo, sommesso
- Portuguese: submisso, manso
- Russian: безро́потный
- Spanish: humilde, resignado, sumiso, manso
meek (meeks, present participle meeking; simple past and past participle meeked)
- (US) (of horses) To tame; to break.
Meek
Proper noun
- Surname.
- An unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska.
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