fleshy
adj/ˈflɛʃi/
Etymology From Middle English fleisshy, fleischy, fleschi, equivalent to flesh + -y. Piecewise doublet of fleischig.
1
Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
- Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in David Copperfield:
- [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.1901, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The First Men in the Moon:
2
Of a person Having considerable flesh; plump.
- The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.1894, Anthony Hope, chapter 3, in The Prisoner of Zenda:
- 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.1908, Jack London, The Heathen:
1 more example
- It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.2009 January 15, Lisa Abend, “Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks”, in Time:
- a fleshy wine
- Synonyms
- corpulent, full-figured, porky, pudgy, well-covered
- Derived terms
- fleshily, fleshiness, fleshy lupine, overfleshy, subfleshy, unfleshy