单词 | hardfish |
释义 | > as lemmashardfish hardfish n. esp. Scottish dried or salted fish; formerly also †as a count noun (obsolete). [After Anglo-Norman dur pessun (14th cent. or earlier) and (in later Scots use) its apparent early Scandinavian model (compare Old Icelandic harðfiskr (Icelandic harðfiskur)); compare also post-classical Latin piscis durus (from 13th cent. in British sources). In some later instances directly after Icelandic.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cured fish hardfisha1325 cure1883 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxx. 89 þe hundred of mulewelles ant of hard fisses, contenez of eȝtte score mulewelles. c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 193 Of eche hundred of all maner of hard fyssh [Fr. dur peyscun]. 1512 Househ. Bk. James IV f. 4, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Hard Coft xl hard fisch pryce x d. 1695 Acomp Expenc Ordination at Newmilles 18 Sept. in Scots Mag. (1890) July 384 For a hard fish..14 [shillings]. 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. 441 Nothing but Snow-water..to drink, and a little hard Fish to eat. 1864 Trans. National Assoc. Promotion Social Sci. 1863 611 Facility of intercourse must gradually work great changes in the Highlands... Every barrel of herrings and ton of hardfish..are now within reach of an easy market. 1955 Mearns Leader 23 Sept. in Sc. National Dict. (1960) at Hard Gowden Win'ers tae ging wi skirlie, or hard fish, or saut herrin', or haggis. 1990 W. D. Valgardson in L. Hutcheon & M. Richmond Other Solitudes 132 Stealing hardfish before it was ready, my cousin stealing butter from his mother's kitchen. 2002 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Mar. a4 ‘The more hardfish and liver sausage the better,’ said Sigrun Thora McInnes. < as lemmas |
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