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fleed

UK/fliːd/

fleed noun: the internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard. Also the simple past and past participle of flee.

Noun

fleed (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal) The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
    • Every Tenterden market day he used to sell fleed cakes from a basket to the carts that went by.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 134

Also used as

fleed is also the simple past and past participle of flee.

Origin of fleed

Inflected forms.

Words that rhyme with fleed

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Questions about fleed

What does fleed mean?
Fleed means the internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
What part of speech is fleed?
Fleed is a noun.
How do you pronounce fleed?
Fleed is pronounced /fliːd/ (UK).

Words near fleed in the dictionary

  1. fleecily
  2. fleeciness
  3. fleecing
  4. fleecings
  5. fleecy
  6. fleed
  7. Fleeger
  8. Fleegers
  9. fleeing
  10. fleeings
  11. fleek

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