Fleshmeat

Quick meaning: Fleshmeat is a noun meaning (dated) The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.

Meaning

(dated) The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.

Example Sentences

a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545, some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete

“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.”

[…] 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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• fleshmeats
• flesh-meat

Synonyms for fleshmeat

Depending on context, synonyms include meat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flesh, man-meat, inmeats, goatflesh, pigmeat, forcemeat.

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