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white meat, whitemeat
(Also with hyphen.)
[white a. 2, meat n. 2. Cf. MSw. hvitmater pl. (Sw. vitmat).]
1. a. collect. sing. or pl. Foods prepared from milk; dairy produce (occas. including eggs). Obs. exc. dial.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 661/11 Hoc lacticinium, wyttemet. c1450Mirk's Festial 84 Ȝe most fast from all maner flesch mete and whyt-mete. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 129/1 Without etyng fysshe ne mylke egges or whyte mete. 1538Fitzwarren in Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden) 216 Concernyng forbyddyng of whytmeates in Lente. 1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 148 The olde wryters doo teache the making of a kinde of white meate, not much vnlike to Welcurdes. 1584Cogan Haven Health cxciii. 150 A thirde kinde of meats, which is neither fishe nor fleshe, commonly called white meates, as egges, milke, butter, cheese. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 148 The Cowes..with large vdders, yeelding plenty of whitmeates. 1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent i. 4 Giuing..power to eate egges and whitmeats on fasting dayes. 1796Bp. G. Hay in Ushaw Mag. Dec. (1913) 286 In those countries where people have nothing else to eat with their bread but whitemeats; these are more or less permitted in Lent itself: and in some places Eggs also. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Gloss.
b. Certain white or light-coloured flesh foods (see quot. 1877).
1752Chesterfield Lett. (1774) II. 233 Pray leave off..your..pastry, fat creams, and..dumplings; and then you need not confine yourself to white meats, which I do not take to be one jot wholesomer than beef, mutton, and partridge. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., White meats, the flesh of lamb, veal, and rabbits,..chickens, pheasants, and partridges. 1973Guardian 19 Mar. 7/5People in Britain ate less red meat last year, but more ‘white’ meat such as pork and poultry. 1975P. V. Price Taste of Wine vii. 134/1 White meat is generally taken to include pork, veal, chicken and turkey, while the ‘reds’ are beef, lamb, duck and goose. 1985Which? Feb. 54/2 In general, nutritionists recommend that the average British diet should contain less fat and more fibre... They say a good way to achieve this change is to eat more white meat (especially poultry) and fish in place of red meat.
†c. attrib.
1721N. Blundell Diary (1895) 175 April 25th. It being a White-Meat day I dined at a Table by myself at the Swan.
†d. as adj. (fig.) Mean, pusillanimous. Obs.
a1611Beaum. & Fl. Four Plays (1647) 33/1 Sirha, sirha, this whitmeat-spirit's not yours.
2. slang (chiefly U.S.). White women considered as sexual partners or conquests. Cf. meat n. 3 e.
[1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 45/3 White meat, an actress.] 1940‘J. Crad’ Traders in Women v. 134 The..liner took me to Shanghai, and here once again I met the European procurer and salesman of ‘white meat’. 1972[see home n.1 14]. 1976M. Maguire Scratchproof x. 152 I'm off white meat. I have a good thing going with a negro film editor. 1982J. Philips Target for Tragedy (1983) i. iii. 52 Some stranger who sees a piece of white meat he thinks might come his way. |