| 释义 |
† herring-cob Obs.
[See cob n.1 8.]
The head of a herring; fig. a stupid head: cf. cods-head. (In Dicts. from Littleton onward, erroneously given as ‘a young herring’.)
1594,1632[see cob n.1 8]. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict. s.v. Cob, A herring-cob, Halecula. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Herring-cob, a young Herring. 1719D'Urfey Pil to Purge Melanch., The rubbish and outcast of your herringcobs invention. |