ploshern.
/ˈplɒʃə/, U.S. /ˈplɑʃər/ English regional (Cornwall).
A kind of marine fish, in later use identified with a young sea bream.
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1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 34 The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish, called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish.
1763 J. Johnson New Royal & Universal Eng. Dict. II Plusher, a sea fish.
1878 J. Crouch & R. Q. Crouch Cornish Fauna (ed. 2) i. 37 Bream. When half-grown, ‘Plosher’.
1963 R. M. Nance Gloss. Cornish Sea-words 127 Plosher, a half-grown bream (T. Cornish). Literally ‘splasher’, ‘plosh’ being the dialect form of ‘splash’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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