Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A district or an establishment offering sensual pleasures or entertainment. Often used in the plural.
- n. Physical or sensual gratification.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel in which flesh is cooked.
- n. Hence (in allusion to the passage above quoted)
- n. Food; also, the indulgence of animal appetites.
- n. In heraldry, a bearing representing a three-legged iron pot, usually, though not always, depicted sable.
Wiktionary
- n. A place offering entertainment of a sensual or luxurious nature
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked.
- n. plenty; high living.
- n. Places providing opportunity to indulge in amusements or pleasures without moral restraints.
Examples
“He warned young men strenuously to avoid the "fleshpot" of Paris and not to fall in love with Europeans.”
“If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.”
“If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.”
“Unfortunately, Hanna and her millions are in Paris, having a fine time at the Belle Epoque fleshpot of Maxim's.”
“Note how each gaudy fleshpot is smeared in alcoholic nectar.”
“The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.”
“I try to relive those star-kissed programs of the past, when Mommy would make popcorn on the stove (was there any other way?), and I would cuddle up, and get my education in Hollywood, the town that Mommy called "a fleshpot, a real lefty fleshpot".”
Linda Keenan: No Golden Globe Glitz? Now My (Late) Mommy's Ripsh#t!
“Mommy conveyed her knowledge of this lefty fleshpot as if Elizabeth Dole had suddenly taken on Joan Rivers 'job: she was ladylike, brutally honest, up on the gossip, and always added a dash of conservative commentary.”
Linda Keenan: No Golden Globe Glitz? Now My (Late) Mommy's Ripsh#t!
“The inquisitorial nose has found the theater a fleshpot of liberal ideas and practices, a cesspool of light and of joy, the one place on our national scene where democracy was close to coming alive.”
“This is just a fleshpot of a Barolo with loads of concentrated herb and graphite-infused black cherry and currant fruit with plenty of toasty new oak.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fleshpot’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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Pots
What are all these pots doing?
fuss-pot, toss-pot, hot-pot, piss-pot, despot, bam-pot, crackpot, depot, bridgepot, sexpot, hochepot, monkey-pot and 30 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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I've Run a Fowles.
Words from The Magus
magus, bougainvillea, innermost, numen, imbricate, bilges, sandal-wood, incorporeal, fleshpot, desipience, batrachian, caique and 82 more...
Tweets
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madmouth one of the only stews with licentious metaphorical associations. Apr 18, 2009
oroboros Fleshpot is a phonetic reversal of top-shelf, i.e., containing the same sounds in reverse.
--From futilitycloset.com Mar 7, 2009