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fishlore en · NOUN

Etymology

From fish + lore.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.
   • This is a ritual — a completely bogus ritual — staged mainly to amuse the locals, wherein gullible tourists are forced to recite some fishlore gibberish and drink a kick of rum (the infamous screech) and then kiss a cod, [...] 2005, Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada:
   • Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler. 1886, The Academy, volume 29:
2. (uncountable) The knowledge, science, or study of fish; ichthyology.
   • I have already mentioned that these fish seem capable of actually breathing atmospheric air, but what the eggs should want with air, and compressed air at that, I leave others better versed in fishlore to explain. 1894, Bombay Natural History Society, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society: Volume 8:

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