FLAY

flay

(verb) strip the skin off

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

flay (third-person singular simple present flays, present participle flaying, simple past and past participle flayed)

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

(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To frighten; scare; terrify.

(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be fear-stricken.

Noun

flay (plural flays)

(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.

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

Etymology 2

Verb

flay (third-person singular simple present flays, present participle flaying, simple past flayed, past participle (obsolete) flain or flayed)

to strip skin off

to lash

Synonyms

• (remove the skin of): fleece, flense, skin

Anagrams

• Alfy

Proper noun

Flay (plural er-noun or Flays)

A surname.

Anagrams

• Alfy

Source: Wiktionary

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Flay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying.] Etym: [OE. flean, flan, AS. fleán; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fla, Sw. flå, Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to flat stone, flaw.]

Definition: To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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