Flitch vs Flinch - What's the difference?
flitch | flinch |
The side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
*2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, p. 95:
*:The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
A reflexive jerking away.
To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.
* John Locke
To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
As nouns the difference between flitch and flinch
is that flitch is the side of an animal, now only a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon while flinch is a reflexive jerking away.As a verb flinch is
to make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus.flitch
English
Noun
(es)flinch
English
Noun
(es)- My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.
Verb
- A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.