Antonyms for flitch

Grammar : Verb

Spell : flich

Phonetic Transcription : flɪtʃ

Definition of flitch

Origin : "side of bacon," Middle English flicche (early 13c.), from Old English flicce, related to Old Norse flikki, Middle Low German vlicke "piece of flesh." Not immediately connected to flesh (n.), but perhaps from the same PIE root. A flitch was presented every year at Dunmow, in Essex, to any married couple who could prove they had lived together without quarreling for a year and a day, a custom mentioned as far back as mid-14c.

As in blubber : verb cry
As in cut : verb sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise

Example sentences :

Here are butter and eggs, here is tea, here is sugar, and there is a flitch.
Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow

The livin's no better, it's flitch every meal; they haven't had pie or cake since we came.
Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field

Even a flitch of bacon hung on a cord was riddled with their tiny teeth-marks.
Extract from : « Everyday Adventures » by Samuel Scoville

Camden informs us that he instituted the custom of the flitch of bacon of Dunmow.
Extract from : « Bygone London » by Frederick Ross

Of Flixton in Lancashire the authorities suggest, “perhaps a town of the flitch”.
Extract from : « Archaic England » by Harold Bayley

"What I have given my word to do, I must stick to," said the other; so he took the flitch and set off.
Extract from : « Folk Tales Every Child Should Know » by Various

The fork timbers were let into the stern-post, and carried the transom, wrought out of a flitch of elm 31⁄2 in.
Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out » by Fred T. Hodgson

When our supper of flitch and molasses was over one evening, therefore, I asked him how he meant to use his papers.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 » by Various

An' now, if you'll slip up to me afther dusk, I'll send you down a couple o' bottles and a flitch.
Extract from : « Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee » by William Carleton

Ay, said the steward, but they were not such as will butter any cabbage to eat with this bacon; and so hung the flitch up again.
Extract from : « Joe Miller's Jests, With Copious Additions » by Various

Synonyms for flitch

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