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flesh
CEFRC1
/flɛʃ/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
The soft part of a human or animal body.
- 02
noun
Extra detailBare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Examples
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The trap had cut deeply into the rabbit's flesh.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
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Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe skin of a human or animal.
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
More examples
In contextLions feed on flesh.
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.
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.
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Origin
noun
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”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese,...