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Fleed vs Fleyed - What's the difference?

fleed | fleyed |

As verbs the difference between fleed and fleyed

is that fleed is past tense of flee while fleyed is past tense of fley.

As a noun fleed

is {{cx|dialectal|lang=en}} The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.

fleed

English

Etymology 1

Noun

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

    • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (flee)

    • fleyed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fley)

    • fley

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To frighten.
    • The ghoul fleyed the weary traveller.

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