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wet fish

wet fish noun: fresh fish intended to be cooked.

Noun

wet fish (uncountable)

  1. Fresh fish intended to be cooked.
    • [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
    • Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […]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...

Questions about wet fish

What does wet fish mean?
Wet fish means fresh fish intended to be cooked.
What part of speech is wet fish?
Wet fish is a noun.

Words near wet fish in the dictionary

  1. wet fart
  2. wet farts
  3. wet feet, dry feet policy
  4. wet firecracker
  5. wet firecrackers
  6. wet fish
  7. wet flies
  8. wet fly
  9. wet food
  10. wet foods
  11. wet gas

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