flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: fleshes
form: fleshing
form: fleshed
form: fleshed
Etymology: From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).
Senses: examples: text: Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
examples: text: Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
ref: 1933, Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel:
glosses: To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
examples: text: And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
glosses: To glut.
glosses: To put flesh on; to fatten.
glosses: To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb flesh
word: arm of flesh
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word: become one flesh
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word: breastflesh
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word: calfflesh
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word: cockflesh
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word: cowflesh
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word: deerflesh
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word: deflesh
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word: dickflesh
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word: disflesh
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word: enflesh
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word: exchange flesh
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word: flesh and blood
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word: flesh and bone
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word: flesh and bones
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word: fleshbag
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word: flesh-bag
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word: flesh broth
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word: flesh brush
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word: flesh-colored
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word: flesh-crawling
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word: flesh-eating
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word: flesh-eating disease
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word: fleshen
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word: flesher
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word: fleshfest
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word: flesh fly
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word: fleshfly
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word: flesh glue
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word: fleshhood
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word: fleshhook
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word: fleshhouse
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word: fleshie
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word: fleshify
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word: fleshing
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word: fleshless
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word: fleshlight
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word: fleshlike
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word: fleshling
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word: flesh loaf
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word: fleshloaf
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word: fleshly
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word: fleshmeat
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word: fleshmeet
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word: fleshment
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word: fleshmonger
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word: flesh one's maiden sword
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word: flesh on the bones
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word: flesh out
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word: fleshpot
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word: flesh-pressing
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word: fleshquake
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word: flesh side
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word: flesh tunnel
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word: flesh-wing
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word: fleshworm
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word: flesh wound
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word: fleshy
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word: fruitflesh
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word: goatflesh
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word: goose flesh
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word: go the way of all flesh
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word: horseflesh
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word: human-flesh search
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word: human flesh search engine
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word: inflesh
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word: in the flesh
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word: make fish of one and flesh of another
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word: make someone's flesh crawl
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word: make someone's flesh creep
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word: neither fish nor flesh
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word: one flesh
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word: oxflesh
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word: pleasures of the flesh
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word: pound of flesh
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word: press flesh
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word: press the flesh
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word: proud flesh
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word: sack of flesh
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word: sheepflesh
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word: swine-flesh
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word: swineflesh
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word: swine flesh
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word: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
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word: thorn in the flesh
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word: unflesh
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word: way of all flesh
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word: what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
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word: womanflesh
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word: woodflesh
Related terms: carrion
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