Definitions
Etymologies
- horse + meat (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sen. Conrad Burns gutted the 1971 law protecting them and so they could be sold “for processing and shipment to countries in Europe and Japan, where horsemeat is considered a delicacy.””
“Except for the seeds of a plant that looks like flax and that they pulverize, the horsemeat was their only food.”
“Now I could go google 'horsemeat' but where's the fun in that?”
“* For example, witness the games over horsemeat plants, budgets, and the USDA.”
“The fish brought to them, resplendent on a large platter, had a body that bore no relationship to the fine head, while the veal escalope was revealed, beneath the breadcrumbs, to be a thin slice of horsemeat.”
“The grounds were that horsemeat was associated with pagan Germanic sacrifices.”
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“A lump of horsemeat was staked out near a road and the rangers took turns recording observations in a tiny hide dug into the ground and covered with sticks and spinifex.”
“I returned The Return of the Native to Merv at the library with blood smears on many of the pages from where I had touched the horsemeat.”
“The current market price for horsemeat at a Canadian processing plant is 20 to 40 cents per pound.”
The Washington Post: Beasts of Burden: What happens to thoroughbred racehorses after retirement
“The initial finds of some 60 skeletons also turned up evidence suggesting lavish funeral feasts, with beef, pork and horsemeat on the menu.”
The Guardian: Scars from lion bite suggest headless Romans found in York were gladiators
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘horsemeat’.
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horse phrases
phrases compounds
horned horse, horse aloes, horse-and-buggy, horse and foot, horse and horse, horse ant, horse arm, horse-armoury, horse-arms, horse-artillery, horse-ball, horse-balm and 445 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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AGRI - animal husbandry
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the animal husbandry sector.
bovine animals, beef labelling, animal husbandry, animal keeper, ear tag, electric fence, kid meat, wean off, battery, beekeeping, laying hen, pig meat and 140 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for horsemeat.
qroqqa What on earth did you think they put in them? Prime cuts of delicious free-range, organic, rare breed, heritage beef, grass-fed, Eton-educated, humanely slaughtered, dry-aged and hand-ground by fairies with a pinch of pink Murray River salt and a twist of black pepper?
—Giles Coren in The Times, on the discovery of horsemeat, or indeed any meat, in Tesco Everyday Value Burgers
Feb 19, 2013
bilby "I remember seeing a sign in a Belgian butcher's which was next door to a betting shop that said 'Get your revenge here'."
- comment by Sandy Macdonald on Why are the British revolted by the idea of horsemeat?, BBC website, 18 Jan 2013.
Feb 19, 2013