Meaning

adjective humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

adjective very docile; ; - Langston Hughes

adjective evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; ; - Orville Prescott

originFrom Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg…

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