Etymograph

English

fleshloaf

From flesh + loaf.

A compound of flesh + loaf

Proto-Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’

Proto-West Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’

Old English flǣsċ

Middle English flesh

English flesh

Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz ‘bread’

Proto-West Germanic *hlaib ‘bread’

Old English hlāf ‘bread’

Middle English laf

English loaf

The story

Apparently derived from "pinching off a flesh loaf" (attested in 1999), which likens childbirth to a bowel movement (pinch a loaf being slang for "to defecate").

Today it means

noun A baby.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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