flesh
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
Noun 4 meanings
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
The skin of a human or animal.
Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
Verb 4 meanings
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.
To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
To glut.
To put flesh on; to fatten.
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”).
FLESH at a glance
FLESH has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (F 4 + L 1 + E 1 + S 1 + H 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,038 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with flesh
All rhymes- FRESH11
- MESH9
- REFRESH13
- SHEESH12
- AFRESH12
- SESH7
- YEESH11
- THRESH12
- KESH11
- RESH7
- HORSEFLESH19
- BAKSHEESH21
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