Meaning of humanflesh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Humans collectively.
   rare, uncountable
2. The flesh of a human.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“The ship slid softly along through the darkness of the harbor almost furtively as it were, as if she were carrying off a cargo of kidnapped humanflesh.”

“Horseflesh and humanflesh, / What’s the grand design? / Why does one pull the plough / And another one pull the lines? / What makes a man a man? / Why is a horse a horse?”

“Picture yourself betting on a racehorse, seeing the animal take the lead, and then watching the horse suddenly stop because it pulled a muscle not properly warmed up by its trainers. You’d get pretty heated under the collar, and that’s not the kind of warm-up that’s very beneficial. Horseflesh and humanflesh alike need to be warmed up before strenuous activity.”

“Which was why I had come to the track twice a week for the past three years: to watch with fascination and dread and even with love as the sorry horseflesh struggled around the mile oval, carrying on their heaving backs the hopes of the sorry humanflesh who assembled there to bet on them.”

“Surely my markings are by this time as unmistakable to an observer of humanflesh as are horses’ shades of color, whorls of hair, configurations of bone, and daubs of white to experts in horseflesh. Who else has life imprinted precisely as it has me – left shin neatly scarred by ski-accident, […]”

“At that age, I would have been reluctant to see myself as the urgent stallion and Veronica as the skittish mare. Later, I would realize that horseflesh and humanflesh dance to the same ardent music, even though our human dance is constrained by rules that horses never know.”

“They just ran their separate ways, and so it wasn’t long before Longarm was splashing across Sappa Creek on the paint, alone in the renewed moonlight—and what in blue blazes was the matter with this fool pony? Horseflesh, like humanflesh, was heir to the same agues and cramps that made it easier to run at some times than at others.”

“I thought then how spirit is always perceived at a distance but flesh is not perceived at all, only touched. Puddingface waited my pleasure. Then suddenly, as if divinely sent to sate my perverse craving, a disgusting slab of humanflesh stepped straight into the room—a blighted, blasted, pasty, corrugated, scarred, infected, scabby, pimply, pussripe, pockmarked horse’s ass. His battered boots appeared to have shit on them, probably his own.”

““They won’ hurt m’lady,” Chester blurted out. / “Good God, Chester—” Jack drew tight as a strung bow. He’d finally struck a nerve in that great lump of humanflesh. “Look what they’ve done to her already![…]””

“It quickly becomes clear to us, though, that none of these horrendous creatures has any interest in attacking us. The only real risk we run is that of getting trampled as they go charging past. Very likely it is the case that they find humanflesh unpalatable, or indigestible, or downright poisonous.”

““Mark!! Look out! Loo—” Then there was the sound. The crash. The force. The amorphous form of humanflesh left for dead after colliding with a bus going 55 MPH.”

“Scientists in Korea have released a prototype implant that allows an iPod Nano and a pair of earphones to be connected via your own soft, pink humanflesh.”

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