flesh
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From Old English flǣsc, from Proto-Germanic *flaisk-, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ (“to tear, peel off”). Compare Old High German "fleisk" (German "Fleisch").
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flesh (uncountable)
- The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- 1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game,
- The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
- 1918, Fannie Farmer, Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game,
- (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
- (archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
- I charge the that thou ete no fleysshe as longe as ye be in the Queste of Sankgreall, nother ye shall drynke no wyne [...].
- c.1530s, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Leviticus, 7, xix-xxi,
- The flesh that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire: and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate flesh.
- Yf any soule eate of the flesh of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole[sic].
- Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
- The human body as a physical entity.
- c.1530s, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Leviticus, 6, x,
- And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh, and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
- c.1530s, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Leviticus, 6, x,
- (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Galatians, 5, xvii,
- For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- 1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10,
- But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Galatians, 5, xvii,
- (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
- The skin of a human or animal.
- The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- 2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81,
- The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
- 2003, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, page 81,
- A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
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- See also Wikisaurus:body
[edit] Translations
body tissue
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animal tissue as food
human body entity
skin
edible part of fruit/vegetable
colour
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[edit] Verb
flesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)
- To bury (a sword, for example) in flesh.
- 1933: Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
- Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
- 1933: Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
- To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To add details.
- The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
- to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
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to put flesh on
To add details
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to remove the flesh
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Terms derived from the noun or verb flesh
