defleshed

Updated: May 18, 2025

Banks, half a thousand little clipper-clapper tongues would say, all at the same time, and their dear little eyes sparklin', like so many stars twinklin' of a frosty night. "Well, when I last seed him, he was all skin and bone, like a horse turned out to die. He was teetotally defleshed, a mere walkin' skeleton.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker : Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

Banks, half a thousand little clipper clapper tongues would say, all at the same time, and their dear little eyes sparklin, like so many stars twinklin of a frosty night. Well, when I last see'd him, he was all skin and bone, like a horse turned out to die. He was tetotally defleshed, a mere walkin skeleton.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville