单词 | bush eel |
释义 | > as lemmasbush eel bush eel n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > snake bush eel1828 1828 W. Hone Table Bk. II. 224 At this season when persons, at inns in Lincolnshire, ask for ‘eel pie’, they are presently provided with ‘bush eels’; namely snakes, caught for that purpose in the bushes. 1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes vii. 160 In hard times the grass snake and other species were eaten as ‘hedge eels’ or ‘bush eels’. < as lemmas |
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