flesh
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
Other meanings
The skin of a human or animal.
Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
A kind of
- animal tissue
Related words
- flesh-pressing
- arm of flesh
- flesh-bag
- become one flesh
- cockflesh
- cowflesh
- dead flesh
- dickflesh
- sharkflesh
- exchange flesh
- flesh and blood
- flesh and bone
Word history
From Old English "flǣsċ".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “flesh” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.