Sleep Spent

A few months ago, I learned a word for removing the skin from something. It was a wonderfully barbaric word, and a month later, despite trying desperately to ressurrect it from my memory and Google, I had forgotten it.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have rediscovered the word! I believe I got it from The Onion originally, so it’s fitting that I would find it there again. The word is flense, as in “I ceremonially flensed the carcass.”

You see what I was saying about it being barbaric? This word sounds fantastic when used with one of my other favorite barbarisms, exsanguinate.

Aaah, the beauty of English!