loachn.
/ləʊtʃ/, U.S. /loʊtʃ/ 1. A small European fish, Cobitis (Nemachilus) barbatula (-us), inhabiting small clear streams and highly prized for food; also, any fish of the family Cobitidæ. spinous loach n. Cobitis tænia.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
dogdrave1227
lamprey1297
lingc1300
loach1357
tench1390
carpc1440
rougetc1485
anchovy1582
pompano1598
tai1620
alewife1633
tug-whitingc1650
weakfish1686
ten-pounder1699
fire-flaira1705
tusk1707
porgy1725
katsuo1727
rockfish1731
tautog1750
sea bass1765
Albany beef1779
sable1810
Murray cod1843
paradise fish1858
spot1864
strawberry bass1867
nannygai1871
maomao1873
spotfish1875
strawberry perch1877
milkfish1880
tarwhine1880
tile-fish1881
latchett1882
tile1893
anago1895
flake1906
branzino1915
rascasse1921
lampuki1925
red fish1951
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > member of family Cobitidae (loach)
loach1357
grundel14..
groundling1601
smerlin1668
ground-gudgeon1867
thunder-fish1882
weather-fish1886
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > member of family Cobitidae (loach) > cobitis barbatula
loach1357
stone-loach1825
1357 [see Compounds].
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 585/18 Fundulus, a looche.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 705/1 Hec alosa, a loch.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 54 And smalle fysshe þou take..sperlynges and menwus with al, And loches.
1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §4 Places where Smeltes, Loches, Mynneis.. hathe been used to bee taken.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 108 Thair wes nowdir lad nor loun Mycht eit ane baikin loche Ffor fowness.
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 11 Bait your Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 161 Carps and Loches are observed to breed several months in one year. View more context for this quotation
1768 G. White Let. 27 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 52 The loach, in it's general aspect, has a pellucid appearance.
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xiii. 51 Where in the shallow stream the loaches play.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. ii. 33 That ugly little fish the loche.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. vii. 74 A jar of pickled loaches.
1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 118 The Coachman, sluggish as a bearded loach.
2. Applied to fishes of other genera.
a. The burbot or eel-pout. (In recent U.S. dictionaries.)
b. sea-loach, the whistle-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > rocklings > motella vulgaris (three-bearded rockling)
rockling1602
weasel-linga1682
sea-loach1686
whistle-fish1686
whistling fish1766
weasel-fish1773
whistler1864
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > rocklings > rhinonemus cimbrius (four-bearded rockling)
rockling1602
weasel-linga1682
sea-loach1686
whistle-fish1686
whistling fish1766
weasel-fish1773
whistler1864
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > rocklings > ciliata mustela (five-bearded rockling)
rockling1602
weasel-linga1682
sea-loach1686
whistle-fish1686
whistling fish1766
weasel-fish1773
whistler1864
1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium 121 Mustela vulgaris,..A Sea Loche Cestriæ. Whistle-fish in Cornubia. [So 1769 Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 164.]
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
innocentc1386
greenhead1576
gonyc1580
ninnyhammer1592
chicken1600
loach1605
simplician1605
hichcock1607
smelt1607
foppasty1611
dovea1616
goslinga1616
funge1621
simplicity1633
gewgaw1634
squab1640
simpletonian1652
ninny-whoop1653
softhead1654
foppotee1663
greenhorn1672
sumph1682
sawney1699
sillyton1708
gaby?1746
gobbin?1746
green goose1768
nin-a-kin1787
Jacob1811
green1824
sillikin1832
greeny1834
softhorn1836
sucker1838
softie1850
dope1851
soft1854
verigreen1854
peanut1864
daftie1872
josser1886
naïf1891
yapc1894
barm-stick1924
knobhead1931
sook1933
nig-nog1953
sawn1953
pronk1959
stiffy1965
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. D4v The Loach gets me into a Sutlers bath, and there sits mee drinking for Ioanes best cap.
1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 26 This lotch spares not for any expence.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1357 Act 31 Edw. III, Stat. iii. c. 2 Le pesson de Doggerefissh & lochefissh.
1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Oxen (1596) 43 Some do take a loch fish quick, and put it down the beasts throat.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 178 Was I not a lout gone by, only fit for loach-sticking?
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 254 Loach Traps,..Loach Hook and Rod.
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