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fishlore

fishlore noun: the knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.

Noun

fishlore (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.
    • Another index renders all this fishlore at once accessible to the angler.1886, The Academy, volume 29
    • 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
  2. 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

Forms of fishlore

alternative formfish-lore
alternative formfish lore

Origin of fishlore

From fish + lore.

Questions about fishlore

What does fishlore mean?
Fishlore means the knowledge, stories, and traditions associated with angling or fishing.
What part of speech is fishlore?
Fishlore is a noun.

Words near fishlore in the dictionary

  1. fishling
  2. fishlings
  3. fishlining
  4. Fishlock
  5. Fishlocks
  6. fishlore
  7. fishlouse
  8. fishly
  9. fishman
  10. fishmarket
  11. fishmarkets

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