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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈniʃɔ/

名詞

neshaw (複数形 neshaws)

1. (Massachusetts, especially Martha's Vineyard, now uncommon) A silver eel.
   • c. 1960, Joseph Chase Allen, The wheelhouse loafer [selections from Joseph Chase Allen's weekly longshore log, "With the fishermen", from The Vineyard Gazette, 1940-1960],page 280:

     But when fall comes, the big neshaws want to get to sea and away from here, and that’s when men catch ’em in beach pots and without bait.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:neshaw.