flay
(verb) strip the skin off
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
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.
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
• (remove the skin of): fleece, flense, skin
• Alfy
Flay (plural er-noun or Flays)
A surname.
• Alfy
Source: Wiktionary
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
1 April 2025
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
