Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A person devoted to carnal things.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A person devoted to fleshly things.

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Examples

  • I also love the idea that these book spirits all know each other and are aware of what's going on behind the scenes, while we humans or "fleshling" as the book calls us are by and large clueless.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jeff 2006

  • I also love the idea that these book spirits all know each other and are aware of what's going on behind the scenes, while we humans or "fleshling" as the book calls us are by and large clueless.

    The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. Jeff 2006

  • May I speak candidly, fleshling, one rational creature to another, myself a book and you a reader?

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A Sure-Footed Voice 2007

  • The first line of the book is as follows: "May I speak candidly, fleshling, one rational creature to another, myself a book and you a reader?"

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jeff 2006

  • The first line of the book is as follows: "May I speak candidly, fleshling, one rational creature to another, myself a book and you a reader?"

    The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. Jeff 2006

  • I shall weep if you say so, only -- pardon, mamselle, but do not, if you please, make that weep too long, a few sniffs only, for I have not with me in this fleshling costume ze

    Dorothy Dale : a girl of today Margaret Penrose

  • We do not Judge our middle-class citizens by our cooks, and it is apt to suggest unwisdom, to express it very mildly, to gauge the men and women workers of the stage by beer-hall habitues and fleshling courtesans.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Here, Astro Boy escapes the evil clutches of a war mongering President and ends up on Earth, as the film "yawns out the usual 'accept who you are' moral as Astro hides his circuits from his fleshling friends" (Empire, 2 stars).

    Londonist 2010

  • Here, Astro Boy escapes the evil clutches of a war mongering President and ends up on Earth, as the film "yawns out the usual 'accept who you are' moral as Astro hides his circuits from his fleshling friends" (Empire, 2 stars).

    Londonist 2010

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