deerflesh

deerflesh

English

Alternative forms

• deer-flesh
• deer flesh

Etymology

From deer +‎ flesh.

Noun

deerflesh (uncountable)

1. (rare) The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.
   • 1895, John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art: Volume 80:

     The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican.

   • 2001, Mary Buff, Conrad Buff, The Apple and the Arrow:

     The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water.

   • 2005, S. M. Stirling, The protector's war:

     A woman scuttled towards MacDonald, raising a knife in a hand where fragments of deerflesh clung.

Synonyms

• venison (more common), deermeat (uncommon)