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名詞

fishet (plural fishets)

1. (rare, archaic) A young or small fish.

   Synonyms: fishling, fishlet

   • 1867 August 24, “Town Talk”, in Fun, volume the fifth (new series), London: […] J. Alder, →OCLC, page 248, column 1:

     When they remembered how they came to be partakers of the banquet last year, they must have felt very unsafe until the little crisp fishets were crunched between their teeth.

   • 1874, Thomas Hood, Whims and Oddities: In Prose and Verse (page 107)

     […] fishets that come through the pump, every morning, thick as motelings […]

参照

• “fishet, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.