fleshmeat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545, some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete"
- "[…] Fish may be mix’d with Flesh-meat, although all Physicians are against it: for certainly, the natural freshness and coldness of Fish, doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat,"
- "[…] I had no Flesh-meat, and the Plague raged so violently among the Butchers, and Slaughter-Houses […] that it was not advisable, so much as to go over the Street to them."
- "[…] it seemed hard to be spunging on Jem, and taking a’ his flesh-meat money to buy bread for me and them as I ought to be keeping."
- "“But how shall you cook it [the mutton]?” “Boil it, ’m. He never has flesh meat, not often that is, but when he does I boil it.”"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: flǣsċmete
Usage
Inflected Forms
fleshmeats (plural)
flesh-meat (alternative)