Flesher vs Fleshier - What's the difference?
flesher | fleshier |
A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
A tool used to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
(Scotland) A butcher.
(fleshy)
Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
* 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:
* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:
(of a person) Having considerable flesh.
* 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:
* 1908 , , "The Heathen":
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As a noun flesher
is a person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.As an adjective fleshier is
(fleshy).flesher
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(en noun)Anagrams
*fleshier
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(head)fleshy
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(en-adj)- 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.
- [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
- The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
- 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.
Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:
- 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.