steak
See also: Steak
English edit
Etymology edit
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”).
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Noun edit
steak (countable and uncountable, plural steaks)
- beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
- (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.
- A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
Coordinate terms edit
- (fish): filet (a slice of meat cut with the grain of the fish)
Derived terms edit
- all sizzle and no steak
- book steak
- bucket steak
- butcher's steak
- butler steak
- carpetbag steak
- chicken-fried steak
- chip steak
- chuck steak
- club steak
- country-fried steak
- cowboy steak
- cube steak
- Delmonico steak
- finger steak
- flank steak
- flap steak
- flat iron steak
- flat-iron steak
- flatiron steak
- Florentine steak
- frying steak
- Gaelic steak
- Hamburger steak
- hamburger steak
- Hamburg steak
- hamburg steak
- ham steak
- hanger steak
- Hawaiian steak
- liberty steak
- minute steak
- Montreal steak seasoning
- Montreal steak spice
- oyster blade steak
- pepper steak
- pimp steak
- point steak
- poor man's steak
- pork steak
- porterhouse steak
- ribeye steak
- rib-eye steak
- rib eye steak
- rib steak
- robber steak
- rump steak
- Salisbury steak
- shell steak
- sizzle steak
- skirt steak
- Spencer steak
- Steak and Blowjob Day
- steak and kidney pie
- steak au poivre
- steak bake
- steak bomb
- steak chips
- steak commando
- steak-cut
- steak Diane
- steak fries
- steak hammer
- steak house
- steak knife
- steak on the hoof
- steak sauce
- steak set
- steak tartare
- strip steak
- Swiss steak
- T-bone steak
- tenderloin steak
- tomahawk steak
- tube-steak
- tube steak
- two-eyed steak
Descendants edit
Translations edit
slice of beef
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slice of meat of other animals
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Verb edit
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.
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Noun edit
steak m inan
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steak m (plural steaks, diminutive steakje n)
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- steack (less current)
Etymology edit
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steak m (plural steaks)
- steak (of meat or fish)
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Further reading edit
- “steak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.