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flesh-pot

flesh-pot is the alternative form of fleshpot.

Meaning of fleshpot

Noun

fleshpot (plural fleshpots)

  1. (slang) A place offering entertainment of a sensual or luxurious nature.
    • "This was absurd for a person who... had never before had such unrestricted access to the fleshpots. The fleshpots were full, under Donald Mesh's roof, and his wife could easily believe that the poor girl would not be in a hurry to return to her boarding-house in Brooklyn."1884, Henry James, "A New England Winter" in The Century Magazine 28 (4–5) (August–September 1884).
  2. (US, derogatory, slang) A very attractive woman considered a sex object.
    • "Mere slip. Serpent of old Nile. Doesn't matter in the least," says Mr. Browne airily; "because she couldn't hear me as it happens. My dear girl, follow out the argument. Cleopatra, metaphorically speaking, was a fleshpot, because the world hankered after her. And—you're another."1891, Mrs. Hungerford [i.e., Margaret Wolfe Hungerford], April's Lady, London: F. V. White & Co., page 58
  3. (literally) A pot or vessel of flesh.
    • We would be againe in Egypt, and ſit by the greaſy fleſhpots, to eate againe our Garlike, Onions, and Leeks.1574, Thomas Sampson, “To the Chriſtian Reader Tho. Sampſon wiſheth the felicity of ſpædy and full conuerſion to the Lord”, in Two notable Sermons made by that woꝛthy Martyr of Chriſt Maiſter Iohn...

Forms of flesh-pot

pluralflesh-pots

Questions about flesh-pot

What is flesh-pot the alternative form of?
Flesh-pot is the alternative form of fleshpot.

Words near flesh-pot in the dictionary

  1. flesh-eating
  2. flesh-eating disease
  3. flesh-flies
  4. flesh-fly
  5. flesh-glue
  6. flesh-pot
  7. flesh-pots
  8. flesh-pressing
  9. flesh-pressings
  10. fleshbag
  11. fleshbags

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