Etymology

fleshhouse

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Today it means: A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop. Full definition →

Middle English fleshusse ← Old English flǣsċhūs ← Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*flaiskihūs“shambles”
  2. Old English · inherited fromflǣsċhūs“slaughterhouse, meat shop”
  3. Middle English · inherited fromfleshusse
  4. English todayfleshhouse

From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh + house.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.