Word of the Day:
fleshy
What It Means
Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
Having considerable flesh; plump.
Rich and smooth, with significant body or texture.
a fleshy wine
Fleshy in Context
“He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English fleisshy, fleischy, fleschi, equivalent to flesh + -y. Piecewise doublet of fleischig.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fleshy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
Cite this entry: “fleshy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fleshy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
