steak
See also: Steak
English
Etymology
From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).
Pronunciation
Noun
steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)
- beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- 2017, Letterkenny (TV series):
- "Don't fuck up my steak dinner, Darry."
- 2017, Letterkenny (TV series):
- (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
- venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
- (seafood) A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
Coordinate terms
- (fish): filet (a slice of meat cut with the grain of the fish)
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
slice of beef
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slice of meat of other animals
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Verb
steak (third-person singular simple present steaks, present participle steaking, simple past and past participle steaked)
- To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
- 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:
- Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
- 2000, Nick Karas, The Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing, page 353:
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
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Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)
Synonyms
French
Alternative forms
- steack (less current)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
steak m (plural steaks)
- steak (of meat or fish)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “steak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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