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wet fish en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Fresh fish intended to be cooked.
    • 2007, Virginia Ironside, review of You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker, Literary Review, April 2007, p. 39, Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […]
    • [Plaice] is a difficult fish to manage, and in poor neighbourhoods an important one to manage well. The old hands make a profit out of it; new hands a loss. There’s not much cod or other wet fish sold to the poor, while plaice is in. 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, G. Woodfall and Son, page 68:

Translations (4)

nl verse vis (fresh fish) · cmn 鮮魚 /鲜鱼 (fresh fish) · de Frischfisch (fresh fish) · fi tuore kala (fresh fish)