name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
flay
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Sound
Pronunciation
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flā
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/fleɪ/
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dialectal: flē
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dialectal: /fliː/
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rhymes with -eɪ
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CMU ARPABET: F L EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A fright; a scare.
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
Meaning 3
Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking person.
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verb
Meaning 4
To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To frighten; scare; terrify.
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verb
Meaning 6
To be fear-stricken.
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verb
Meaning 7
To strip the skin off; to skin.
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verb
Meaning 8
To lash or whip.
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verb
Meaning 9
strip the skin off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: skin, peel, pare
History
Etymology
From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).
From Middle English flen, from Old English flēan, from Proto-West Germanic *flahan, from Proto-Germanic *flahaną.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَلَخَ (salaḵa) — to strip skin off
- Arabic: سلخ (salaḵ) — to strip skin off
- Aromanian: bilescu — to strip skin off
- Bulgarian: одирам (odiram) — to strip skin off
- Czech: stáhnout kůži — to strip skin off
- Czech: stáhnout z kůže — to strip skin off
- Danish: flå — to strip skin off
- Dutch: villen — to strip skin off
- Dutch: stropen — to strip skin off
- Finnish: nylkeä — to strip skin off
- French: écorcher — to strip skin off
- Galician: esfolar — to strip skin off
- German: häuten — to strip skin off
- Ancient Greek: δέρω (dérō) — to strip skin off
- Hungarian: nyúz — to strip skin off
- Irish: feann — to strip skin off
- Italian: spellare — to strip skin off
- Japanese: 剥ぐ (hagu) — to strip skin off
- Japanese: 剥ぎ取る (hagitoru) — to strip skin off
- Kabuverdianu: sfola — to strip skin off
- Kabuverdianu: sfolá — to strip skin off
- Kazakh: сою (soü) — to strip skin off
- Latin: dēglūbō — to strip skin off
- Latin: dēcutiō — to strip skin off
- Lithuanian: di̇̀rti — to strip skin off
- Māori: tīhore — to strip skin off
- Norwegian Bokmål: flå — to strip skin off
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flå — to strip skin off
- Polish: oskalpować — to strip skin off
- Portuguese: esfolar — to strip skin off
- Quechua: iqhay — to strip skin off
- Romanian: beli — to strip skin off
- Russian: свежева́ть (sveževátʹ) — to strip skin off
- Russian: сдира́ть шку́ру (sdirátʹ škúru) — to strip skin off
- Sicilian: spiḍḍari — to strip skin off
- Slovak: stiahnuť kožu — to strip skin off
- Slovak: stiahnuť — to strip skin off
- Slovak: odrať — to strip skin off
- Spanish: desollar — to strip skin off
- Spanish: despellejar — to strip skin off
- Swedish: flå — to strip skin off
- Swedish: flänga — to strip skin off
- Turkish: yüzmek — to strip skin off
- Ottoman Turkish: یوزمك (yüzmek) — to strip skin off
- Ukrainian: здирати шкіру (zdyraty škiru) — to strip skin off
- Ukrainian: здерти шкіру (zderty škiru) — to strip skin off
- Welsh: blingo — to strip skin off
- Welsh: digroeni — to strip skin off
- Woiwurrung: ter'embeyat — to strip skin off