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Proud Flesh

Definition: Proud Flesh

Proud Flesh

Noun

1. The swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Proud Flesh

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Convexity

Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Proud Flesh

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Proud Flesh (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Proud Flesh

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Proud Flesh

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

proud flesh

47
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Proud Flesh

Language Translations for "proud flesh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

wucherung (growth, proliferation, rank growth). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vadhús (game), sarjadzó hús, húsburjánzás. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oudpray eshflay

   

Russian 

  

дикое мясо. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

aimhfheoil, ainfheoil. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tejido granulado. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yara etrafındaki şişlik, şişlik (blain, boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, puff, puffiness, rising, swelling, thickening, turgescence). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Proud Flesh

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Sarcophaga. (various references)

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Anagrams: Proud Flesh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-l-o-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: upholders.

-2 letters: hopefuls, shoulder, upholder.

-3 letters: floured, flushed, flusher, folders, holders, holdups, hopeful, hurdles, leprous, ourself, pelorus, plusher, polders, presold, profuse, purfled, purfles, pushrod, refolds, slurped, sporule, upfolds, upholds, uphroes.

-4 letters: dholes, dopers, dorsel, douser, drupes, dupers, ephods, ephors, flours, fluors, folder, fouled, fouler, furled, holder, holdup, hopers, hordes, horsed, housed, housel, houser, hurdle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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