flay

[flay]

Nasty word, flay. It means to peel or beat the skin of a person or animal, and not necessarily a dead one, either. Nowadays it more commonly means to criticize harshly someone or something, usually in public, leaving them raw and wounded.

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To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

Verb
strip the skin off


v. t.
To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.


Flay

Flay , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying.] [OE. flean, flan, AS. fle'a0n; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fl'be, Sw. fl'86, Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to flat stone, flaw.] 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.

Flayer

Flay"er , n. One who strips off the skin.

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

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