steak
/steɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
Example Sentences
- "venison steak, pork steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks"
- "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."
- "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."
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”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.