| 单词 | cockney bream |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockney bream 6. Australian. More fully cockney bream. The Australasian snapper, Pagrus auratus, esp. a young one. Also: the flesh of this fish used as food. Cf. schnapper n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagrus or Chrysophrys (schnapper) > young red bream1763 cockney1898 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales 41 Juveniles rank the smallest of the fry, not over an inch or two in length, as the cock-schnapper.] 1898 Sydney Mail 26 Nov. 1312/3 Even Fred Couche, of Woy Woy, is often compelled to bag these ‘cockney’ fish for the people who engage him. The cockney buster's maxim is ‘little fish are sweet’. 1936 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 61 p. xlvii Miss E. C. Pope exhibited the head of a specimen of the Cockney Bream, Pagrosomus auratus, which showed peculiar malformation of the mouth and jaws. 1951 T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 77 Various names are given to the snapper during the course of its growth. The youngest stages are known as ‘cockneys’. 2008 Northern Territory (Austral.) News (Nexis) 31 Dec. (Business section) 25 They tucked into palmer, kuparu and cockney. < as lemmas |
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