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flay

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10
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10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/fleɪ/
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/fleɪ/ · /fliː/

Definition of flay

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
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verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive)To frighten; scare; terrify.
    “If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape”
  3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To be fear-stricken.
  4. To strip the skin off; to skin.
    “The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.”
  5. To lash or whip.

noun

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)A fright; a scare.
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal)Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English *flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds: āflīeġan), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).

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