| 单词 | garbage fish |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarbage fish garbage fish n. chiefly North American fish of inferior quality, esp. a type of fish considered less desirable as a food or commercial product; cf. junk fish n. at junk n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. Recorded earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish thoke1482 rough fish1816 garbage fish1841 offal1859 shack1904 junk fish1930 1841 Cambr. Independent Press 6 Mar. Sir Peckham Micklethwait communicated his own results in the use of garbage fish oil and bone-dust on his farm. 1887 Rep. in Jrnl. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 19 6 Dyak Jemain borrowed my casting-net and caught a lot of fine fish, but Pangeran Sahbudin informed me that the large ones were garbage fish; in spite of this the men seemed to appreciate the rare treat of fresh fish. 2009 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 28 Aug. Until just a few decades ago the Japanese considered tuna a garbage fish. < as lemmas |
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