Fresh vs Flesh - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fresh and flesh

is that fresh is a rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood while flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

As an adjective fresh

is newly produced or obtained.

As a verb flesh is

to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

fresh

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fresch, fersch, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Newly produced or obtained.

He followed the fresh hoofprints to find the deer.

I seem to make fresh mistakes every time I start writing.

Not cooked, dried, frozen, or spoiled.

After taking a beating in the boxing ring, the left side of his face looked like fresh meat.

I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.

a glass of fresh milk

(of plant material) Still green and not dried.

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

Refreshing or cool.

What a nice fresh breeze.

(of water) Without salt; not saline.

After a day at sea it was good to feel the fresh water of the stream.

* (?), The World Encompassed , Nicholas Bourne (publisher, 1628), page 49:

There we made our ?hip fa?t with foure ropes, in ?mooth water, and the fre?h water ranne downe out of the hill into the ?ea,

* 1820 , William Scoresby, An Account of the Arctic Regions , Archibald Constable & Co., page 230:

When dissolved, it produces water sometimes perfectly fresh , and sometimes saltish;

* 2009 , Adele Pillitteri, Maternal and Child Health Nursing , Sixth Edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781582559995, page 1557:

Additional changes that occur when water enters the lungs depend on whether the water is fresh or salt.

Rested; not tired or fatigued.

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Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.

In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.

a fresh hand on a ship

youthful; florid

* Shakespeare

these fresh nymphs

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Antonyms

* stale

Derived terms

* afresh * fresh air * fresh as a daisy * fresh bean * fresh country eggs * fresh breeze * fresh fish * fresh food * fresh frozen plasma * fresh gale * fresh ground/fresh-ground * fresh legs * fresh-new * fresh off the boat * fresh out of * fresh start * fresh water/freshwater * freshen * fresher * freshly * freshman * freshment * freshness * hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire * refresh * refreshing

Noun

(freshes)

A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.

* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Nebraska, 1987), page 21:

They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh , and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel.

A stream or spring of fresh water.

* Shakespeare

He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him / Where the quick freshes are.

The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.

Etymology 2

1848, US slang, probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.

No one liked his fresh comments.

Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.

Hey, don't get fresh with me!

Derived terms

* fresher * freshness * get fresh

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* 1000 English basic words

flesh

English

(wikipedia flesh)

Noun

(-)

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:

*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.

The skin of a human or animal.

(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.

*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit

*c.1530s , , 7, xix-xxi,

*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .

*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.

The human body as a physical entity.

*c.1530s , , 6, x,

*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,

(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

*1769 , , 5, xvii,

*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,

*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .

(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest , page 81,

*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.

(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

*Cowper

*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.

(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.

*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27

*:He is our brother and our flesh .

A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

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Verb

To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel

Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.

(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.

*, II.7:

And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.

To put flesh on; to fatten.

To add details.

The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.

To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Derived terms

* exchange flesh * flesh and blood * flesh fly * flesh out * flesh side * flesh-wing * flesh wound * flesher * fleshing * fleshpot * fleshy * goose flesh * in the flesh * one flesh * pound of flesh * press the flesh * proud flesh * way of all flesh

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