flensing
noun, verb
flensing is a noun meaning “The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-N-S-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flensing is flensings.
What does flensing mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flense
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flensing
- flensings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flensing?
Flensing appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).