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adj. - Of or relating to or resembling the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate adj. - Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.

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  • You will enjoy forbidden foods, satisfy your every taste in fleshy pleasures and intellectual self-indulgence.
  • The father of the current Batgirl taught her to fight but not to read, and shot her in fleshy parts to enure her to the pain.
  • "Don't call her fleshy, my dear, that's what really irritated her," remarked the Senator.
  • Laviny ain't what you'd call fleshy, but she never could squeeze through that in this world.
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