meh

See also: Meh, MEH, méh, -meh, мен, мең, and мөн

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English

WOTD – 1 April 2009

Etymology

• Popularized by the television show The Simpsons, specifically in the episode titled "Homer's Triple Bypass".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/

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Adjective

meh (comparative more meh, superlative most meh)

1. Mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring.
   • 2003, steve-o, Jam On The River Mini-Review [1] in rec.music.phish

     They redeemed themselves with this show. The first song or two was meh, but they were on fire after that.

   • 2006, Suzanne D., Recaps: Finals Week 8 Performances, 5/2/2006 [2] in alt.tv.american-idol

     The voice is excellent as always, but the overall effect was meh until the end, where he became a little bit awesome.

   • 2006, FunkyM, Turned on RAW for the first time in forever last night... [3] in rec.sport.pro.wrestling

     Nothing that was supposed to be big and exciting came off as such and the rest was meh at best.

2. Apathetic; unenthusiastic.
   • 2003, Dana, 10/18/03 Shows [4] in alt.tv.trading-spaces

     Both shows left me feeling, meh.

   • 2004, jennifer, The FANtasia thing: I don’t get it... [5] in alt.gossib.celebrities

     I’m a huge Clay fan, love Ruben’s voice, and have become quite a fan of Kelly’s, as well. Fantasia just leaves me feeling meh.

   • 2006, ettie...@hotmail.com, Steve’s impressions on random Genesis games [6] in rec.games.video.sega

     I liked it but I wasn’t feeling it for some reason that day, again, I was feeling meh toward video games in general.

Translations

mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring

• Czech: nic moc (cs)
• Dutch: bah (nl), bof (nl)
• Finnish: vaisu (fi)

• Hungarian: hú, hű (hu)
• Russian: фигня́ (ru) f (fignjá) (noun), фиго́вый (ru) (figóvyj) (adjective)

apathetic; unenthusiastic

• Finnish: tympäistä (to feel meh)

• Russian: безразли́чный (ru) (bezrazlíčnyj) (adjective), безразли́чие (ru) n (bezrazlíčije) (noun); по́фиг (ru) (pófig) (impersonal)

Interjection

meh

1. (slang) Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.

   “What do you want for dinner?” — “Meh. I’m not really hungry.”

   “That film was awesome!” — “Meh. I’ve seen better.”

   • 1995 March 19, “Lisa’s Wedding”, The Simpsons:

     Marge: [weaving on a loom] “Hi Bart, I’m weaving on a loom!”

     Bart: “Meh”.

   • 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[7]:

     Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.

Translations

slang: expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm

• Czech: hm (cs)
• Dutch: bah (nl), bof (nl)
• Finnish: hmm, pah, pyh (fi)
• French: bof (fr)
• Hungarian: hú, hű (hu), húha, hűha, azta

• Italian: bah
• Portuguese: nhé
• Russian: ну (ru) (nu) (generalising), хм (ru) (xm) (generalising); пф (pf) (more indifference and a bit of defiance); фу (ru) (fu), фе (ru) (fe), фи (ru) (fi) (even more indifference and defiance)
• Swedish: tsk (sv), äh (sv)

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• German: ^{(please verify)} mh
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} eh

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} bah

Noun

meh

1. (informal) A judgement marked by indifference; lack of impression.

Anagrams

• 'hem, Hem, hem, hem-

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• mef

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meuska, from Proto-Indo-European *meuH- (compare Latvian maût ‘to submerge’, Serbo-Croatian mȉti ‘to wash’).

Verb

meh (first-person singular past tense meha)

1. to soak

Related terms

• muf

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Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian (compare Persian ماه‎ (mah), Ossetian мӕй (mæj), Avestan mā̊, maoṅh), from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit मास (mā́sa)), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”) (compare Albanian muaj, Armenian ամիս (amis), French mois, Tocharian A mañ, English moon).

Noun

meh f

1. month

Related terms

• mang

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Old High German mēro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. Compare German mehr, Dutch meer, English more.

Adjective

meh

1. more

Adverb

meh

1. any longer
2. more
3. anymore

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) mijȇh

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *měxъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêːx/

Noun

mȇh m (Cyrillic spelling ме̑х)

1. blower, bellows
2. goatskin, wineskin

Declension

Declension of meh

	singular	plural
nominative	mȇh	mȅhovi
genitive	meha	mehova
dative	mehu	mehovima
accusative	meh	mehove
vocative	mehu / meše	mehovi
locative	mehu	mehovima
instrumental	mehom	mehovima

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈméːx/
• Tonal orthography: mẹ̑h

Noun

méh m inan (genitive méha, nominative plural mehôvi)

1. bellows

Declension

Declension of méh (masculine inan., hard o-stem, plural in -ôv-)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	méh	mehôva	mehôvi
accusative	méh	mehôva	mehôve
genitive	méha	mehôv	mehôv
dative	méhu	mehôvoma	mehôvom
locative	méhu	mehôvih	mehôvih
instrumental	méhom	mehôvoma	mehôvi

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *meːᴮ (“mother”). Cognate with Thai แม่ (mɛ̂ɛ), Lao ແມ່ (mǣ), Lü ᦶᦙᧈ (mae¹), Shan မႄႈ (māae), Ahom 𑜉𑜦𑜧 (mee).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /me˧/
• Tone numbers: me⁶
• Hyphenation: meh

Noun

meh (old orthography meƅ)

1. mother