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ponto
July 22nd, 2005, 02:29 PM
Fleshy: fat.
1807: A large, fleshy, rugged, strong, active child. Massachusetts Spy, August 26
1840: Mrs. Ferret is what we call a fleshy or lusty woman; she weighed two hundred and twelve, in Neal Hopper's new scale at the mill. John P. Kennedy, Quodlibet, p.110

A great link to older words and phrases..............
http://www.campchase.com/Slang/Slang-A-F.htm

annie
July 29th, 2005, 08:14 PM
What a wonderful site ponto! Great for figuring out old newspaper articles! (And they think we Kentuckians talk funny)

ponto
July 29th, 2005, 11:05 PM
Thanks Annie,There are a few of of us around that like such things.............p