Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
flayed , past participle of flay.
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Examples
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"No, me plenty flaid wolf," answered the Chinaman, shaking his head violently.
Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor
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"Allee samee muchee flaid noisee," and then his round face dimpled into another laugh.
Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett Putnam Serviss
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"Say, Song, you see something makee you flaid this moling?" said Stella, imitating Song's pidgin English.
Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor
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Abe that made me a bit flaid o 'axin' him ower mony questions.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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I gat a bit flaid when I thowt o 'that, but I couldn't tak my een off t' lass wi 't' wand.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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"Allee same muchee flaid noisee," and then his round face dimpled into another laugh.
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"Tha's noa need to be flaid on it," shoo sed, "it's some o'th 'reight sooart; it's what thi uncle allus taks when he ails owt, an' aw believe if th 'time iver comes when a sup o' that willn't cure him, it'll be a case o 'curran cake an slow walkin: for aw believe its saved his life manny a scoor times already, an' it's a deeal cheeaper nor doctor's physic."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Big blave talkee talkee soldier, and tink Inglis offlicer 'flaid.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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I pointed to him to run and fetch the bird I had fhot, which he did, but flaid fome time j for the parrot, not being quite dead, was fluttered a good way oiF from the place where £he fell; however he found her, took her up, '
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts ... 1790
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At the end of three days I arrived at Nata, where I flaid one night, and found the inhabi - tants, who arc Indians, as much inclined to fa - vour and afHft me, as any other people I had hi - therto met; but the next town I came to, that was New Panama, inhabited by Spaniards only,
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