To meal?
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Could you help me, please?
Is there a verb "to meal"? I have found it in the dictionary, but I can't find any live example. As a verb it sounds awkward for me.
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Maria D As a verb it sounds awkward for me. to me Me, too. I would have thought it wasn't a word, and I had to dig.
- Maria D As a verb it sounds awkward for me.
- to me Me, too.
- I would have thought it wasn't a word, and I had to dig.
- In the sense "eat", I found citations back to Middle English.
- In senses to do with meal, ground grain, mostly Scottish and later English.
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Maria DAs a verb it sounds awkward for me.
to me
Me, too. I would have thought it wasn't a word, and I had to dig. In the sense "eat", I found citations back to Middle English. In senses to do with meal, ground grain, mostly Scottish and later English. It does not appear in the abridged dictionaries as a verb at all. I would forget it, if I were you.
0I assume you mean in the sense of "to eat a meal"?
It is rare. A few examples can be found e.g. in Google Book Search. It is not something that I have ever heard used in everyday conversation.
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