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Definition: Flay |
FlayVerb1. Strip the skin off. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Flay \Flay\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Flayed; present participle verb or noun Flaying.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divestment | Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin. |
Punishment | Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flay |
| English words defined with "flay": Flain, Flayed, Flaying. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flay": Flay a Fox, FLEA ♦ Glasse ♦ To FLAY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flay": Flawter. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Ill way to 'aami on the 'ance say oor flay (Gettin' Jiggy Wit It; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
J. August Strindberg | What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Flay" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 51.72% of the time. "Flay" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 51.72% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 48.28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "flay": to flay. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flay": flay-flint. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bobby flay | 297 | bobby flay recipes.com | 3 |
flay | 31 | bobby chef flay | 3 |
bobby flay recipe | 18 | bobby flay picture | 3 |
bobby flay restaurant | 16 | flay nipple | 3 |
bobby chef flay iron | 10 | bio bobby flay | 3 |
bobby bolo flay | 8 | bobby flay march stephanie | 3 |
bobby flay grill hot off | 6 | bobby flay gay | 3 |
back flay | 5 | bobby flay food network | 2 |
biography bobby flay | 5 | bobby flay new restaurant york | 2 |
bobby flay grill mesa | 4 | bobby flay recipe rib | 2 |
brian flay | 4 | bobby bolo flay restaurant | 2 |
bobby flay food nation | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afstroop (harry, ravage, strip). (various references) | |
Albanian | shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, trounce, upbraid, vituperate), rrjep (bark, bleed, deplume, Peel, pick, soak), grabit (amputate, depredate, deprive, despoil, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reave, reive, rent, rip off, Rob, sack, subtract). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهب (despoilment, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sack, sacking, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), سلخ الجلد, سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), خدش البشرة, إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, decry, flog, lapidate, pull to pieces, rap, scarify, scourge, slam, slash, squib). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скубя (fleece, pluck, pluck off, pluck up, pull, rook, soak), смъквам кожата на, одирам (abrade, excoriate, flench, flense, raw, skin, soak, tear off), бия с камшик (cat, cowhide, flog, larrup, lash, quirt, scourge, thong), бия с пръчка (baste, cane, drub, flog, larrup, lather, swish, switch, whip), дера (skin, tear). (various references) | |
Czech | surovì zbít, strhat (pull), stáhnout kùži (skin), odřít (abrade, chafe, chip, excoriate, lacerate, scrape, strip). (various references) | |
Danish | pelsning (pelting, skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin), pelse (skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin), normal retning af halvrundstaal og fladhalvrundstaal (normal straightening of half rounds and flay rounds straightening bar to normal commercial limitsf/ straightness by reeling, spinning or by other mechanical means), afhude (skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin), afbarke (to bark, to debark, to decorticate, to disbark, to flaw, to flay, to rind, to ross, to strip). (various references) | |
Dutch | vellen (overthrow), afstropen (harry, ravage, skin, strip). (various references) | |
Esperanto | senfeligi (skin, strip). (various references) | |
Finnish | nylkeä (fleece, overcharge, skin). (various references) | |
French | piller, éreinter, écorcher (to flay). (various references) | |
German | schinden (drive hard, flog, maltreat, overwork, punish, work), häuten (skin, to skin). (various references) | |
Greek | γδέρνω (skin), βασανίζω (afflict, torture), εκδέρω (excoriate, shave, skin). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפשוט עור (skin), לנזוף (admonish, chide, dress down, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, slate, take to task, upbraid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyúz (skin, to flay), megnyúz (to excise, to flench, to flense, to skin). (various references) | |
Italian | scuoiare (skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin), scorticare (bark, excoriate, gall, graze, hide, scrape, scratch, skin), criticare aspramente, angariare (bulldoze). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 剥す (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥がす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), 剥ぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はがす (to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off), はぐ (to deprive of, to disrobe, to flay, to peel off, to rip off, to skin, to strip off, to tear off). (various references) | |
Manx | fanney (dress down, excoriation, fleece, fly-fishing, scalp, skin, skinning, slash, slashing, slating, soak, tirade). (various references) | |
Norwegian | flå (fleece). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pelar (scale, skin, strip), explorar (exploit, explore), espoliar (despoil, prey), esfolar (bark, desquamate, excoriate, fleece, flench, flense, flinch, fret, gall, graze, milk, rase, raw, raze, scale, scalp, skin, strip), descompor (discompose, revile), descascar (peel, shell). (various references) | |
Romanian | sfârtica, prãda (despoil, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, ruin, sack, spoil), lua la refec (carpet), jupui (abrade, bark, excoriate, fleece, gall, graze, Harry, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, Rob, scratch, skin, soak, strip, wound), jefui (burgle, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe, spoil), jecmãni (fleece), critica sever (cut up, score), beli (bark, fleece, Rob, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | свежевать, сдирать кожу (raw), резко критиковать (assail, knock, pick to pieces), обдирать (fleece, fleeced, flench, flense, rip off, victimize). (various references) | |
Scottish | feann. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oderati (skin). (various references) | |
Spanish | despellejar (bark, raw), desollar (scarify, skin). (various references) | |
Swedish | skinna (fleece, skin), skala (scale, pare, Peel, shell), flå (skin). (various references) | |
Turkish | verip veriştirmek (fulminate), soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), sert bir dille eleştirmek (wade in, wade into), paylamak (baste, bring up, dress down, give smb. beans, inveigh, jaw out, lace into, objurgate, rag, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, scold, tick off), derisini yüzmek (excoriate, hide, skin, skin out), çok parasını almak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чистити (brighten, burnish, clean, clean down, cleanse, furbish, scour, scrub, stem), здирати шкуру (flench, flense). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tống tiền người vắt cổ chảy ra mỡ (flay-flint). (various references) | |
Welsh | blingo (skin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | excoriaverunt. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 1, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ekdeiranteV to olokautwma meliousin auto kata melh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Detractaque pelle hostiae artus in frusta concident |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the skyn of the oost drawun of, the greet lemes thei shulen kit in gobetis; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And let the burntoffrynges be strypped and hewed in peces. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Leviticus Chapter 1, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Ug pagapanitan niya ang halad-nga-sinunog, ug kini hiwa-hiwaon sa iyang mga bahin. |
| Croatian | Potom neka se žrtva sadre i rasijeèe na dijelove. |
| Danish | Så skal han flå Huden af Brændofferdyret og skære det i Stykker, |
| Dutch | Dan zal hij het brandoffer de huid aftrekken, en het in zijn stukken delen. |
| Finnish | Ja hän nylkeköön polttouhriteuraan ja leikelköön sen määräkappaleiksi. |
| French | Il dépouillera l`holocauste, et le coupera par morceaux. |
| German | Und man soll dem Brandopfer die Haut abziehen, und es soll in Stücke zerhauen werden; |
| Hungarian | Azután vonja le az égõáldozat bõrét, azt pedig vagdalja el tagjaira. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian orang itu harus menguliti dan memotong-motong binatang itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu hendaklah dikulitinya korban bakaran itu dan dipotongnya berpenggal-penggal. |
| Italian | Scorticherà la vittima e la taglierà a pezzi. |
| Maori | Na me tihore e ia te tahunga tinana, a me tapatapahi tenei wahi ona, tenei wahi ona. |
| Norwegian | Og så skal han flå brennofferet og dele det op i sine stykker. |
| Portuguese | Então esfolará o holocausto, e o partirá nos seus pedaços. |
| Rumanian | Sq jupoaie viyelul adus ca ardere de tot, wi sq -l taie kn bucqyi. |
| Spanish | Después desollará la víctima del holocausto y la cortará en pedazos. |
| Swedish | Och han skall draga av huden på brännoffersdjuret och dela det i dess stycken. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flay": flayed, flayer, flayers, flaying, flays. (additional references) | |
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"Flay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alfy, elay, Falah, Faley, falsy, Falvai, faly, fla, flaby, flad, flae, Flaf, Flagyl, Flah, flaid, flaq, flav, Flavy, flaye, flayl, flei, flewy, fley, fliny, floy, Floya, flym, flyn, fway, klay, lfa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flay" (pronounced flā") |
| 3 | f l ā" | souffle. |
| 2 | -l ā" | allay, ballet, cabriolet, chalet, clay, delay, display, filet, fillet, lay, lei, ley, ole, overplay, Palais, play, redisplay, replay, slay, sleigh, underplay, valet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-y" | |
-1 letter: fay, fly, lay. | |
-2 letters: al, ay, fa, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-y" | |
+1 letter: fatly, flaky, flamy, flawy, flaxy, flays, leafy. | |
+2 letters: barfly, daftly, dayfly, deafly, fairly, family, faulty, fealty, featly, flabby, flaggy, flakey, flappy, flashy, flatly, flayed, flayer, floaty, flyman, flyway, gadfly, layoff, mayfly, safely, salify, sawfly. | |
+3 letters: affably, aloofly, amplify, awfully, calcify, clarify, coalify, daffily, faculty, fadedly, faintly, fallacy, falsely, falsify, falsity, fancily, fatally, fattily, finally, flakily, flaunty, flavory, flayers, flaying, flyable, flyaway, flyboat, flyleaf, flypast, flytrap, flyways, foamily, focally, folkway, frailly, frailty, frankly, friarly, fugally, gallfly, halfway, hayloft, layoffs, lifeway, palfrey, playful, playoff, qualify, salsify, sandfly, shadfly, swayful, trayful. | |
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